Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 1868-1945
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 Blac...
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| Superior document: | Women in Japanese History ; v.1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : Global Oriental, 2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women in Japanese History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (393 pages) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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
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