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Marcia Yonemoto, “The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan” (U of California Press, 2016)

New Books in East Asian Studies

English - April 25, 2017 11:58 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
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Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature,...
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Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature,...

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