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A place in public : women's rights in Meiji Japan /
This book addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. During the early decades of the Meiji period (1868-1912), the Japanese encountered an idea with great currency in the West: that the social position of women reflected a country's level...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Asia Center,
©2010.
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
332. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: gendering Meiji Japan
- From status to gender: systems of classification in transition
- The meanings of rights and equality
- A place in public: female speakers and writers
- A woman's place, 1890
- Conclusion: engendering modernity.