Description: We have never heard voices like these. For the first time, rebel women in prewar Japan speak, and their words are startling, eloquent, unforgettable. Unwilling to accept their prescribed roles as “good wives and wise mothers,” these women challenged and sought to survive their harsh, modernizing world, a world with little peace or tolerance for women who thought their own thoughts and tried to live their own lives. From the Japanese bohemia of the 1920s to the often underground world of Japanese reformist and revolutionary movements, from poetesses, suffragettes, and even a woman who plotted to assassinate the Emperor, come thes rare glimpses of Japanese women as we never previously imagined they existed. Tellingly chosen by Professor Mikiso Hane, these vivid testimonies give a new sense of what was truly won and lost in Japan’s race toward industry and empire.
Author: Hane, Mikiso
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Used Very Good
Genre: Social/Women’s Studies
Page Count: 274
Extra Comments: Has overstock mark at the bottom
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication Year: 1990
ISBN: 9780679722731
