Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945 / edited with an introduction by Gail Lee Bernstein.
In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological gi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1991]
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| Summary: | In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520070151 9780520070158 0520070178 9780520070172 9780520910188 0520910184 |