Aoki Yayoi was a Japanese scholar and eco-feminist critic.
14 Facts About Aoki Yayoi
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Aoki Yayoi was from Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from what is known as Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences.
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Aoki Yayoi was married to Kitazawa Masakuni and her real name is Kitazawa Yayoi.
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Aoki Yayoi argued that the model systemically marginalized women, and raised the question of whether such a model was still legitimate in contemporary Japan and, if so, what its consequences were for the family unit and women.
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Aoki Yayoi was a proponent of Takamure Itsue's bosei-ism or spirit of motherhood, which made her ecofeminism seem like Japanese 1970s nationalist feminism.
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Aoki Yayoi advised Japanese young women to question femininity or onnarashisa and masculinity or otokorashisa in her work The Myth of Femaleness.
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Aoki Yayoi was particularly interested in how Japanese honorifics influence power politics.
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One of Aoki Yayoi's criticisms was, at the root of modern civilization only the "masculine principle" exists, furthermore the "feminine principle," that should be balanced with it, doesn't exist and consequently the masculine principle is being distorted.
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Aoki Yayoi seems to be anti-Western in many of her works by criticizing Western civilization, but she uses a misreading of Western theories to support her ecofeminist arguments.
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Aoki Yayoi's analyses regarding technologies were situated within the global geopolitical context.
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Aoki Yayoi was particularly concerned about the impact of new technologies on third world women, and argued that one must consider a variety of contexts within which women develop a relationship to technology.
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Aoki Yayoi was wary of contemporary society's growing dependence on technology, since she believed it led to political apathy, war, and nuclear disasters.
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Aoki Yayoi argued that we should be developing a more self-reliant system of existence.
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Aoki Yayoi cited alternative value systems like the ecological feminism of Denmark or the Green Party in West Germany as other routes that feminism should explore.