Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination After Fukushima

Author/Contributor(s):	Kimura, Aya Hirata
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	08/26/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Aya Hirata Kimura traces the experiences of citizen scientists--particularly mothers--who after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster collected scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food, showing how the Japanese government used neoliberal and traditional gender ideologies to discount and socially sanction these women and their findings.