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Gendered power : educated women of the Meiji Empress' court / Mamiko C. Suzuki

Suzuki, Mamiko C. [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press [[2019]], 2019

x, 147 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references

1901

Erscheint auch als: Suzuki, Mamiko C., author : Gendered power. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019] (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-472-07397-9 (hbk); 978-0-472-05397-1 (pbk)

978-0-472-12416-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-0-472-12416-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2018040650

OCoLC: 1099849741     

HQ1762

305.40952     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.80 (Japan) <Geschichte> ; 71.33 (Frau) <Soziologie>

*Japan ; Meiji-Zeit ; Frau ; Literatur ; Shōken, Japan, Kaiserin [1850-1914] ; Kishida, Toshiko [1863-1901] ; Shimoda, Utako [1854-1936]      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Shōken -- Empress, consort of Meiji, Emperor of Japan -- 1850-1914 ; Women -- Japan -- Social conditions ; Women -- Education -- Japan -- History ; Women intellectuals -- Japan -- History ; Women and literature -- Japan -- History ; Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1868-

The traditional and modern education of Empress Haruko and her court women -- From Kishida Toshiko to Nakajima Shōen : a Meiji classical Chinese foundation for a modern Japanese woman -- Shimoda Utako and the scandal of the educated female body.

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"Drawing on the increased scholarly interest in women of the Meiji period, the present book considers the significance and influence of elite, educated Meiji women and their role in shaping the national identity of women in modern Japan. Carrying over these considerations both from previous English and Japanese scholarship, this study interrogates the political and cultural forces that positioned women as delegates of the Meiji empress' court or as exemplary Japanese women. It argues that the network of women emerging from the empress' court negotiated the visually, culturally, and educationally circulated feminine ideals and its effects that were carried out as components of a modern Japanese woman's identity"--