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"Absorbing research and smoothly engaging prose... Fruhstuck traces all this with intriguing historical snapshots, which alone make the book worthwhile." * Japan Times *
"Playing War is a must read for its inclusion of the child in the discourse of the nation and for helping us to understand, and perhaps to push back against, the intractability of the idea of eternal war." * Journal of Japanese Studies *
"Wastes not one word. . . . offers us an invaluable opportunity in our own precarious historical moment to examine the powerful pull and troubling consequences of bromides that normalize relationships between children and militarism." * Monumenta Nipponica *

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Vulnerability Hypothesis

PART I. PLAYING WAR
Chapter 1 • Field Games
Chapter 2 • Paper Battles

PART II. PICTURING WAR
Chapter 3 • The Moral Authority of Innocence
Chapter 4 • Queering War
Epilogue: The Rule of Babies in Pink

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 9/1/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520295452, 978-0520295452
      ISBN10: 0520295455

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Absorbing research and smoothly engaging prose... Fruhstuck traces all this with intriguing historical snapshots, which alone make the book worthwhile." * Japan Times *
      "Playing War is a must read for its inclusion of the child in the discourse of the nation and for helping us to understand, and perhaps to push back against, the intractability of the idea of eternal war." * Journal of Japanese Studies *
      "Wastes not one word. . . . offers us an invaluable opportunity in our own precarious historical moment to examine the powerful pull and troubling consequences of bromides that normalize relationships between children and militarism." * Monumenta Nipponica *

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: The Vulnerability Hypothesis

      PART I. PLAYING WAR
      Chapter 1 • Field Games
      Chapter 2 • Paper Battles

      PART II. PICTURING WAR
      Chapter 3 • The Moral Authority of Innocence
      Chapter 4 • Queering War
      Epilogue: The Rule of Babies in Pink

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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