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Japanese women and the transnational feminist movement before World War II /
This book traces the development of feminist consciousness in Japan from 1871 to 1941. Taeko Shibahara uncovers some fascinating histories as she examines how middle-class women navigated between domestic and international influences to form ideologies and strategies for reform. They negotiated a hu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Laying the Foundations for an International Feminist Perspective: Challenging the Discourses of Civilization; Women's Situation in Modernizing Japan; Christian Social Activism and the Notion of the Women's Rights Movement; Social Questions and Socialist Women; 2. "Carrying with Her New Ideals and a New Outlook": The Development of Cross-cultural Contacts, 1902-1930; Awakening International Feminist Discourse and the IWSA, 1902-1920.
- Different Perceptions about Women's Roles in Society: The IWSA Dialogue with Japanese EducatorsPropagating Western Knowledge about Women's Social Activism in the 1910s; The Problem of Unity in the Women's Rights Movement in Early 1920s Japan; From Social Reform Work to the Unified Suffrage Movement; The First Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Honolulu in 1928; 3. Generating a Feminist Movement through Peace Activism, 1915-1941; No Peace without Equality; The Buildup to the Foundation of the Women's Peace Association in Japan; In Japanese Women's Own Image.
- Women Pacifists in International PoliticsExpanding Spaces for Peace Activism; Combining a Nuanced Strategy with a Middle Way; 4. From Private to Public: Ishimoto Shidzue and the Birth Control Movement up to 1941; Ishimoto Shidzue and the Development of Feminist Consciousness; Ishimoto's Encounter with the Discourse of the Birth Control Movement; From the Private to the Public; Ishimoto Shidzue in America, 1924; Linking Birth Control with Suffrage; Broadening Feminist Consciousness; 5. Using Their Initiative at Home and Beyond: Suffragists' Wartime Activism, 1931-1941.
- The Women's Rights Movement in the Aftermath of the Manchurian IncidentWomen's Initiative in Wartime Social Activism during the Second Sino-Japanese War; Writing for Japanese Women; The Gap between American and Japanese Women Widens; The Suspension of Suffragist Activism; Conclusion; Epilogue: Postwar Continuity; Appendix A: Notable People; Appendix B: Notable Organizations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.