Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women's networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth century.
The essays traverse the divide when Japan started transforming itself from a decentralized to a centralized government, from legally imposed restrictions on movement to the breakdown of travel barriers, and from ad hoc schooling to c.
University Of Michigan Press Women and networks in nineteenth-century japan, volume 90, hardcover/bettina gramlich-oka
