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Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan: The Development of the Feminist Movement
Contributor(s): Patessio, Mara (Author)

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 ISBN: 192928067X     ISBN-13: 9781929280674
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
OUR PRICE: $26.25  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
Dewey: 305.488
LCCN: 2010050270
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.75 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women's activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. With chapters on public, private, and missionary schools for girls, their students, and teachers, on social and political groups women created, on female employment, and on women's participation in print media, this book offers a new perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese history. Women's founding of and participation in conflicting discourses over the value of women in Meiji public life demonstrate that during this period active and vocal women were everywhere, that they did not meekly submit to the dictates of the government and intellectuals over what women could or should do, and that they were fully integrated in the production of Meiji culture. Mara Patessio shows that the study of women is fundamental not only in order to understand fully the transformations of the Meiji period, but also to understand how later generations of women could successfully move the battle forward. Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan is essential reading for all students and teachers of 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese history and is of interest to scholars of women's history more generally.
 
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