Format:
VIII, 289 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780472074693
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9780472054695
Series Statement:
Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies number 90
Content:
Klappentext: "Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women's networks for civil society in twentieth century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth century. The essays traverse the divide when Japan started transforming itself from a decentralized to a centralized government, from legally imposed restrictions on movement to the breakdown of travel barriers, and from ad hoc schooling to compulsory elementary school education. As these essays suggest, such changes had a profound impact on women and their roles in networks. Rather than pursue a common methodology, the authors take diverse approaches to this topic that open up fruitful avenues for further exploration. Most of the essays in this volume are by Japanese scholars; their inclusion here provides either an introduction to their work or the opportunity to explore their scholarship further. Because women are often invisible in historical documentation, the authors use a range of sources (diaries, letters, legal documents, etc.) to reconstruct the familial, neighborhood, religious, political, work, and travel networks that women maintained, constructed, or found themselves in, sometimes against their will. In so doing, most but not all of the authors try to decenter historical narratives built on men's activities and men's occupational and status-based networks, and instead recover women's activities in more localized groupings and personal associations"--
Note:
Bibliografie: Seite 273-274
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Index: Seite 277-289
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780472127337
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Women and networks in nineteenth century Japan Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2020]
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Sociology
Keywords:
Japan
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Frau
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Soziales Netzwerk
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://www.press.umich.edu/11595430/women_and_networks_in_nineteenth_century_japan
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