Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 1868-1945

• Superior document: Women in Japanese History ; v.1
• Author: University of Edinburgh.
• VerfasserIn: Tomida, Hiroko,
• TeilnehmendeR: Tomida, Hiroko; University of Edinburgh.
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : Global Oriental, 2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Women in Japanese History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Based on the highly successful conference on the same theme held at Edinburgh University in 2003, the volume is divided into two themes: 'Pioneering Women in Japan' and 'General Issues in Japanese Women's History'. The full list of contributors is as follows: Dr. Carmen Blacker, Professor Helen M. Hopper, Dr. Helen Parker, Professor Sayoko Yoneda, Professor Barbara Moloney, Ms. Shoko Ishizaki, Dr. Hiroko Tomida, Professor Janet Hunter, Professor Chiaki Yokoyama, Ms. Miyako Orii, Ms. Reiko Ikegawa, Professor Vera Mackie, Dr. Margaret Mehl, and Dr. Gordon Daniels.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Technical Preface; Introduction; PART 1: PIONEERING WOMEN IN JAPAN; 1. Hiratsuka Raicho's Idea of Society: Nature, Cooperation and Self-Government; 2. 'Motherhood in the Interest of the State': Baroness Ishimoto (Kato) Shidzue Confronts Expansionist Policies against Birth Control, 1930-1940; 3. Ichikawa Fusae and Japan's Pre-war Women's Suffrage Movement; PART 2: GENERAL ISSUES IN JAPANESE WOMEN'S HISTORY; 4. Embodied Subjects: Feminism in Imperial Japan; 5. Gender, Economics and Industrialization: Approaches to the Economic History of Japanese Women, 1868-1945; 6. Fukuzawa Yukichi on Husband-Wife Relationships; 7. Dancing at the Rokumeikan: A New Role for Women?; 8. Women, Christianity and Internationalism in Early Twentieth Century Japan:Tsuda Ume, Caroline Macdonald and the Founding of the Young Women's Christian Association in Japan; 9. Hiratsuka Raicho, the Seito Society, and the Emergence of the New Woman in Japan; 10. Humanitarianism or Politics?: Japanese Red Cross Nurses in Britain, 1915-1916; 11. Shin Fujin Kyokai (the Association of New Women) and the Women Who Aimed to Change Society; 12. Japanese Women Film-makers in the Second World War: A Study of Sakane Tazuko, Suzuki Noriko and Atsugi Taka; 13. Principles of Procreation and the Family in Modern Japan: Factors behind Decisions on Family Size; 14. Femininity and Masculinity in the Japanese Folkcrafts (Mingei) Movement; Appendix 1: Chronology of Major Historical Events and Women's Movements, 1867-1952; Appendix 2: List of Institutions which hold Archival Material on Japanese Women; Appendix 3: Centres Relating to Women and Gender; Select Bibliography; Index --.