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Rising Suns, Rising Daughters

Gender, Class and Power in Japan

By: Joanna Liddle,Sachiko Nakajima

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Rising Suns, Rising Daughters

Gender, Class and Power in Japan

By: Joanna Liddle,Sachiko Nakajima

Surprisingly little is known in the West about Japanese women. Exploring themes of gender and class, this book traces the changing position of women through history and into the present. Repudiating the cliche of the submissive Japanese woman, the authors show women as active agents in both family and public life. The women's liberation movement of recent years resonates with echoes of struggle and resistance from earlier times. The broader movements of history and culture are brought into focus within the experiences of individual women.

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1856498794

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9781856498791

Uncertain Powers

Sen’yōmon-in and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan

By: Sachiko Kawai

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Uncertain Powers

Sen’yōmon-in and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan

By: Sachiko Kawai

Uncertain Powers is an original and much-needed analysis of female leadership in medieval Japan. In challenging current scholarship by exploring the important political and economic roles of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Japanese royal women, Sachiko Kawai questions the traditional view of the era as one dominated by male retired monarchs and a warrior government. Instead the author populates it with royal wives and daughters who held the title of premier royal lady (nyoin) and owned extensive estates across the Japanese archipelago. Nyoin, whose power varied according to marital status, networks, and age, used their wealth and human networks to build temples and organize their entourages as salons to assert religious, cultural, and political influence. Confronted with social factors and gender disparities, they were motivated to develop coping strategies, the workings of which Kawai masterfully teases out from the abundant primary sources. Uncertain Powers presents a nuanced and groundbreaking study of the relationship between a nyoin’s authority (her acknowledged rights) and her actual power (the ability to enforce those rights), demonstrating how, as members of political factions, as landlords, and as religious and cultural patrons, nyoin struggled to transform authority into power by means of cooperation, persuasion, compromise, and coercion.

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BRILL

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1684176352

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9781684176359

Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century

104 Biographies, 1900-1993

By: Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck,Marlene R. Edelstein

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Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century

104 Biographies, 1900-1993

By: Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck,Marlene R. Edelstein

It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8772892684

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9788772892689

Rising Suns, Rising Daughters

Gender, Class and Power in Japan

By: Joanna Liddle,Sachiko Nakajima

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Rising Suns, Rising Daughters

Rising Suns, Rising Daughters

Uncertain Powers

Uncertain Powers

Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century

Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century

Rising Suns, Rising Daughters

Rising Suns, Rising Daughters

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