Constructing Opportunity: American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan

by Elizabeth K. Eder

In the 1850s, after two and a half centuries of self-imposed isolation, Japan opened to the outside world, creating the possibility for profoundly new cultural interactions and experiences. Constructing Opportunity: American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan tells the story of Margaret Clark Griffis and Dora E. Schoonmaker, two extraordinary women who transcended the traditional boundaries of nation, class, and gender by living and working...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739106406
• ISBN13: 9780739106402
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"