The tea ceremony and women's empowerment in modern Japan : bodies re-presenting the past /

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"The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Katō, Etsuko, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York, NY : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Series:Anthropology of Asia series (Richmond, England)
Subjects:
Since 1945
Japanese tea ceremony.
Women > Japan > Social conditions.
Cérémonie du thé.
Femmes > Japon > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Japanese tea ceremony
Social conditions
Women > Social conditions
Japan > Social conditions > 1945-
Japon > Conditions sociales > 1945-
Japan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The tea ceremony as bodily discipline
  • Bodily discipline and myths
  • Two postwar phenomena in the tea ceremony
  • The birth of sōgō-bunka discourse and feminization of the tea ceremony
  • Women's tea ceremony today
  • Shachū and women's tea ceremony networks
  • The past re-presented
  • The meaning of the tea ceremony in women's lives.

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