Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945

Name: Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945
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ISBN: 9780520070172

ISBN-10: 0520070178

ISBN-13: 9780520070172

Edition: 1991

Authors: Gail Lee Bernstein

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In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/9/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Gail Lee Bernstein is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.



Introduction



Women and Changes in the Household Division of Labor



The Life Cycle of Farm Women in Tokugawa Japan



The Deaths of Old Women: Folklore and Differential Mortality in 19th-Century Japan



The Shingaku Woman: Straight from the Heart



Female Bunjin: The Life of Poet-Painter Ema Saiko



Women in an All-Male Industry: The Case of Sake Brewer Tatsu'uma Kiyo



The Meiji State's Policy Toward Women, 1890-1910



Hastings Yosano Akiko and the Taisho Debate Over the "New Woman"



Middle-Class Working Women During the Inter-war Years



Activism Among Women in the Taisho Cotton Textile Industry



The Modern Girl as Militant



Doubling Expectations: Motherhood and Women's Factory Work Under State Management in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s



Women and War: The Japanese Film Image



Afterword