Feminist Criticism in Japanese Politics in the 1880s: The Experience of Kishida Toshiko
@article{Sievers1981FeministCI, title={Feminist Criticism in Japanese Politics in the 1880s: The Experience of Kishida Toshiko}, author={Sharon L. Sievers}, journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society}, year={1981}, volume={6}, pages={602 - 616} }
It is symptomatic of the treatment of women in Japanese history that we know so little of their direct contribution to the wide-ranging debate over "women's rights" that began in the early years of the Meiji period (1868-1912) and continued, in one form or another, throughout Japan's modern history. Part of a larger discussion over the pace and style of Japan's modernization, the debate was carried on against a background of growing political opposition to a new government, which had imposed…
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