Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 18681945: Emerging from Subservience

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 18681945 by Hiroko Tomida, Gordon Daniels This volume contains some of the most recent findings in the field of Japanese womens history in Japan, Australia, the United States and the UK, and introduces new approaches to studying Japanese womens history. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description For the first time, many of the worlds leading scholars in the field of Japanese womens history met in Edinburgh in 2003 and presented papers addressing the themes of Pioneering Women in Japan and General Issues in Japanese Womens History. This volume, containing most of the papers, which have been specially edited and revised for publication, together with an in-depth contextual Introduction by Dr Hiroko Tomida and Dr Gordon Daniels, is the outcome. By definition, therefore, the volume contains some of the most recent findings in this field in Japan, Australia, the United States and the UK, and introduces new approaches to studying Japanese womens history. In addition, it contains a special contribution on Ichikawa Fusae by Professor Barbara Molony. Author Biography Hiroko Tomida is Research Fellow at the School of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, where she teaches Japanese womens history. She has also taught at Seijo and Sheffield Universities. Her main publications are Fame and Feminism in Twentieth-century Great Britain (1989), Womens History in Japan: Its Origins and Development (1996), and Japanese Writing on Womens History (1996) with K.D.M.Snell. Most recently, she has published The Association of New Women and its Impact on the Development of the Japanese Womens Movement, in Japan Forum (2005). Gordon Daniels is Reader Emeritus, University of Sheffield. He was President of the British Association of Japanese Studies, 1986-7, and President of the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists, 1989-92. Between 1996 and 2002 he was Convenor of the Social and Cultural Section of the Anglo-Japanese History Project. He has written widely on international relations and the history of modern Japan. His major publications include A Guide to the Reports of the US Strategic Bombing Survey (1981), Japanese Industry and Commerce (1989) with P.T.Harries, and Sir Harry Parkes, British Representative in Japan (1986). Table of Contents Acknowledgements; Contributors; Technical Preface; Introduction; PART 1: PIONEERING WOMEN IN JAPAN; 1. Hiratsuka Raichos 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 Japans Pre-war Womens Suffrage Movement; PART 2: GENERAL ISSUES IN JAPANESE WOMENS 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 Womens 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 Womens 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 Long Description For the first time, many of the worlds leading scholars in the field of Japanese womens history met in Edinburgh in 2003 and presented papers addressing the themes of Pioneering Women in Japan and General Issues in Japanese Womens History. This volume, containing most of the papers, which have been specially edited and revised for publication, together with an in-depth contextual Introduction by Dr Hiroko Tomida and Dr Gordon Daniels, is the outcome. By definition, therefore, the volume contains some of the most recent findings in this field in Japan, Australia, the United States and the UK, and introduces new approaches to studying Japanese womens history. In addition, it contains a special contribution on Ichikawa Fusae by Professor Barbara Molony. Description for Reader College/higher education Details ISBN1901903184 Short Title JAPANESE WOMEN Language English ISBN-10 1901903184 ISBN-13 9781901903188 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 2005 Imprint Global Oriental Ltd Subtitle Emerging from Subservience, 1868-1945 Place of Publication Folkestone Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Hiroko Tomida DEWEY 305.420952 Series Women in Japanese History Author Gordon Daniels DOI 10.1604/9781901903188 Series Number 1 AU Release Date 2005-05-19 NZ Release Date 2005-05-19 UK Release Date 2005-05-19 Pages 256 Publisher Brill Publication Date 2005-05-19 Alternative 9789004213838 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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