Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan

Sharon L. Sievers

Published by Stanford University Press 1983

Flowers in Salt

The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan

Sharon L. Sievers

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503621305

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This is the first book to examine the changing roles of women in Japan during the four decades following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, a period of sweeping political, social, and economic change. The book concentrates on those Japanese women who were outspoken critics of their society and the roles women were assigned in it, but also assesses the contributions women made to Japan during a period of rapid modernization. The struggle of Japanese women to gain political rights, the creation of a women's reform movement, the involvement of women in the early socialistic movement, the protests of women textile workers who staged Japan's first strikes, the evolution of the women's movement into a literary movement, and a new view of Kanno Suga, an anarchist who was hanged by the Japanese government in 1911, are presented against the background of determined state intervention in the lives of women. The book concludes with a brief summary of the changing role of women in Japan since Meiji, and compares their experience with that of European and American women.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Impressions, 186o Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Early Meiji Debate on Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
3. Women in the Popular-Rights Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
4. The Textile Workers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
5. The Women's Reform Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. Women Socialists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
7. Kanno Suga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8. The Bluestockings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
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Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 256
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- Other: illus

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Published: May 2, 2022
ISBN: 9781503621305