A Place in Public: Women's Rights in Meiji Japan

by Marnie S. Anderson

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 of civilization. Although elites initiated dialogue out of concern for their country's reputation internationally, the conversation soon moved to a new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674056051
• ISBN13: 9780674056053
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"