Author: Barbara SatoPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330448
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
DIVA study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II./div
The New Japanese Woman
Author: Barbara SatoPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330448
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
DIVA study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II./div
The New Japanese Woman
Author: Barbara Hamill SatoPublisher:
ISBN: 9786612920752
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II.
Japanese Woman
Author: Sumiko IwaoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106134
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious. In fact, the author shows, Japanese women hold equal and sometimes even more powerful positions than men in many spheres.
In the Beginning, Woman was the Sun
Author: Raichō HiratsukaPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023113813X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
'In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun' presents a personal account of the author's life in late 19th and early 20th century Japanese society. This is a story of a woman at once idealistic and elitist, fearless and vain, perceptive and brilliant.
Stranger in the Shogun's City
Author: Amy StanleyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501188542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).
Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan
Author: Mara PatessioPublisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
ISBN: 192928067X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945
Author: Gail Lee BernsteinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520070178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.
New Paradox for Japanese Women, The; Greater Choice, Greater Inequality
Author: Tachibanaki ToshiakiPublisher:
ISBN: 9784903452180
Category : Social status
Languages : ja
Pages : 290
Book Description
『女女格差』英語版。女性の人生でのさまざまな格差を検証し、その差が合理的なものなのか不公平なものなのかを分析する。
The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
Author: Kaneko FumikoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134901763
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Despite an early life of misery, deprivation, and hardship, she grew up to be a strong and independent young woman. When she moved to Tokyo in 1920, she gravitated to left-wing groups and eventually joined with the Korean nihilist Pak Yeol to form a two-person nihilist organization. Two days after the Great Tokyo Earthquake, in a general wave of anti-leftist and anti-Korean hysteria, the authorities arrested the pair and charged them with high treason. Defiant to the end (she hanged herself in prison on July 23, 1926), Kaneko Fumiko wrote this memoir as an indictment of the society that oppressed her, the family that abused and neglected her, and the imperial system that drove her to her death.
Becoming Modern Women
Author: Michiko SuzukiPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804761973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture is a literary and cultural history of love and female identity in Japan during the 1910s-30s.