Transnational Women's Activism : : The United States, Japan, and Japanese Immigrant Communities in California, 1859-1920 /

Transnational Women's Activism : : The United States, Japan, and Japanese Immigrant Communities in California, 1859-1920 / / Rumi Yasutake.

Following landmark trade agreements between Japan and the United States in the 1850s, Tokyo began importing a unique American commodity: Western social activism. As Japan sought to secure its future as a commercial power and American women pursued avenues of political expression, Protestant church-w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Yasutake, Rumi,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Tilling the Ground: American Protestant Foreign Missionary Women in Early Meiji Japan, 1859-1890
  • 2 Sprouting a Feminist Consciousness: Japanese Women’s WCTU Activism in Tokyo, 1886-1894
  • 3 Managing WCTU Activism: The Japanese Way in Late Meiji Japan, 1890-1913
  • 4 Beyond Japan to California: Issei Christian Activism in Northern California, 1870s-1920
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: List of Organizations
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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