Women in Mid-nineteenth Century Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Mid-nineteenth Century Japan write by Richard Michael Goldrosen. This book was released on 1979. Women in Mid-nineteenth Century Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan write by Bettina Gramlich-Oka. This book was released on 2020-11-19. Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women’s networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth century. The essays traverse the divide when Japan started transforming itself from a decentralized to a centralized government, from legally imposed restrictions on movement to the breakdown of travel barriers, and from ad hoc schooling to compulsory elementary school education. As these essays suggest, such changes had a profound impact on women and their roles in networks. Rather than pursue a common methodology, the authors take diverse approaches to this topic that open up fruitful avenues for further exploration. Most of the essays in this volume are by Japanese scholars; their inclusion here provides either an introduction to their work or the opportunity to explore their scholarship further. Because women are often invisible in historical documentation, the authors use a range of sources (such as diaries, letters, and legal documents) to reconstruct the familial, neighborhood, religious, political, work, and travel networks that women maintained, constructed, or found themselves in, sometimes against their will. In so doing, most but not all of the authors try to decenter historical narratives built on men’s activities and men’s occupational and status-based networks, and instead recover women’s activities in more localized groupings and personal associations.
Stranger in the Shogun's City
Stranger in the Shogun's City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stranger in the Shogun's City write by Amy Stanley. This book was released on 2020-07-14. Stranger in the Shogun's City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).
Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan
Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan write by Lorraine Sterry. This book was released on 2009-01-29. Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Complementing other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing, it examines narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, and became a highly desirable travel destination thereafter.
Stranger in the Shogun's City
Stranger in the Shogun's City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stranger in the Shogun's City write by Amy Stanley. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Stranger in the Shogun's City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."--
