Gerteis demonstrates that Japanese organized labor's discourse on womanhood not only undermined women's status within the labor movement but also prevented unions from linking with the emerging woman-led, neighborhood-centered organizations that typified social movements in the 1960s.

Demonstrates that organized labor's discourse on womanhood not only undermined women's status within the Japanese labor movement after WWII, but also prevented the socialist unions from linking with the emerging woman-led, neighborhood-centered organizations that typified social movements in the 1960s.