The first book to tackle the importance of women's networks for civil society in Japan in th nineteenth century. The essays traverse the divide when Japan started transforming itself from a decentralized to a centralized government, and from legally imposed restrictions on movement to the breakdown of travel barriers.
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Brill's Japanese Studies Library - 24: Thinking Like a Man
Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825)
- 319 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Thinking Like a Man Deals with the life and ideas of the poet and philosopher Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825). This book presents insights into gender discourses of the late Tokugawa period (1600-1868), and thereby opens a way to break away from conventional intellectual history. Full description