Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 1868–1945

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Acknowledgements Contributors Technical Preface Introduction PART 1: PIONEERING WOMEN IN JAPAN 1. Hiratsuka Raicho's Idea of Society: Nature, Cooperation and Self-Government 2. 'Motherhood in the Interest of the State': Baroness Ishimoto (Kato) Shidzue Confronts Expansionist Policies against Birth Control, 1930-1940 3. Ichikawa Fusae and Japan's Pre-war Women's Suffrage Movement PART 2: GENERAL ISSUES IN JAPANESE WOMEN'S HISTORY 4. Embodied Subjects: Feminism in Imperial Japan 5. Gender, Economics and Industrialization: Approaches to the Economic History of Japanese Women, 1868-1945 6. Fukuzawa Yukichi on Husband-Wife Relationships 7. Dancing at the Rokumeikan: A New Role for Women? 8. Women, Christianity and Internationalism in Early Twentieth Century Japan:Tsuda Ume, Caroline Macdonald and the Founding of the Young Women's Christian Association in Japan 9. Hiratsuka Raicho, the Seito Society, and the Emergence of the New Woman in Japan 10. Humanitarianism or Politics?: Japanese Red Cross Nurses in Britain, 1915-1916 11. Shin Fujin Kyokai (the Association of New Women) and the Women Who Aimed to Change Society 12. Japanese Women Film-makers in the Second World War: A Study of Sakane Tazuko, Suzuki Noriko and Atsugi Taka 13. Principles of Procreation and the Family in Modern Japan: Factors behind Decisions on Family Size 14. Femininity and Masculinity in the Japanese Folkcrafts (Mingei) Movement Appendix 1: Chronology of Major Historical Events and Women's Movements, 1867-1952 Appendix 2: List of Institutions which hold Archival Material on Japanese Women Appendix 3: Centres Relating to Women and Gender Select Bibliography Index