Talk:Shidzue Katō

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eugenics
I moved the eugenics content out of the lede, since it was disproportionate emphasis. I clarified based on the original article the eugenics content in the later section. Because eugenics is deeply controversial, this material needs to be carefully watched to avoid politicization, either through deleting it altogether, overplaying it, putting inappropriate spins on it, leaving out critical context, or turning articles into a disquisition on eugenics.

background: Eugenics was a broad social movement in the early 20th century, and included racists and anti-Semites and classists, as well as people who were not racist but were opposed to people with disabilities having children, as well as people who believed that limiting births helped people be healthier. Today we largely associate eugenics with the racist or anti-disability implementations in the US and Nazi Germany, so we have to be very careful when writing to make sure that we are not ascribing beliefs to people that they did not actually have.

There is nothing in the source literature on Katō_Shidzue that I can see that clarifies the flavor of her beliefs. In particular, I see nothing in the literature that suggests that she was a proponent of "eugenics" as we understand it today. As importantly, the literature on her suggests she was prominent for her work for birth control and abortion rights, and political work after WW2, not support for eugenics per se. It appears, therefore, that it is most accurate to include some information about eugenics, properly contextualized, in the article; but not to suggest as the previous text did, that she was a "strong advocate for" or that she was "known for" eugenics.

-- Lquilter (talk) 20:40, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Western order
I have a preference for using Western order as she used that at the time of her life: see covers of Facing Two Ways https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91E2GTTYUVL.jpg and https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780804712408-us.jpg

Using Japanese order is something for more academic Asian Studies-oriented publications, but Wikipedia is a general reference. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:25, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Kato used Western order in her own works, including Facing Two Ways. Helen M. Hopper used Japanese order in A New Woman of Japan (1996); I do not know if the author has/had an Asian studies academic background - if so, it makes sense. The Guardian used "Shizue Kato" in its 2002 obituary https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/feb/01/guardianobituaries.socialsciences WhisperToMe (talk) 10:04, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Interestingly it seems Hopper used Western order in an earlier work: // Seems like Hopper specializes in gender studies and not Japanese studies? WhisperToMe (talk) 10:30, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

The 1930s NYT article used western order, including for her dad WhisperToMe (talk) 14:03, 13 October 2019 (UTC)