Tsuda Umeko and Womens Education in Japan

by Barbara Rose

Tsuda Umeko was one of five young Japanese girls sent to the United States in 1871 by their government to be trained in the lore of domesticity. The new Meiji rulers defined a "true woman" as one who had learned to rear children who would be loyal and obedient to the state, and they looked to the "superior culture" of the West as the place to obtain such training. Eleven years later, Tsuda returned to Japan and presented herself as an authority on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300051778
• ISBN13: 9780300051773
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.3"