Transnational Women's Activism: The United States, Japan, and Japanese Immigrant Communities in California, 1859-1920

by Rumi Yasutake

Following landmark trade agreements between Japan and the United States in the 1850s, Tokyo began importing a unique American commodity: Western social activism. As Japan sought to secure its future as a commercial power and American women pursued avenues of political expression, Protestant church-women and, later, members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) traveled to the Asian coast to promote Christian teachings and women's social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814797032
• ISBN13: 9780814797037
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"