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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. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.

Women --- Feminism --- Employment --- History. --- #SBIB:316.346H20 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- #SBIB:95G --- J4176.80 --- J4353 --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Employment&delete& --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Azië --- Geschiedenis van Azië (inclusief Arabische wereld, Nabije Oosten) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- women --- Femmes --- Féminisme --- Histoire --- Travail --- Japan --- Féminisme --- Japon --- agriculture. --- artisan. --- bakufu. --- class. --- division of labor. --- domesticity. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- gender hierarchy. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gendered labor. --- handicrafts. --- household chores. --- household labor. --- japan. --- japanese women. --- meiji restoration. --- merchants. --- misogyny. --- onnagata. --- onnarashisa. --- otokorashisa. --- patriarchy. --- peasants. --- post war. --- preindustrial society. --- samurai. --- sexuality. --- shingaku. --- status. --- tokugawa. --- wealth. --- womanhood. --- women and labor. --- women in history. --- women in the workforce. --- womens studies. --- womens work. --- working women.