Constructing Opportunity
Subtitle: American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan (Studies of Modern Japan)
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780739106402
Subjects: Biography: general; Multicultural studies; Teaching of specific groups; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Education; General; Multicultural Education; Education / Multicultural Education; Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies; Women's Studies - General; 19th century; Biography; Griffis, Margaret Clark; History; Japan; Soper, Dora Schoonmaker; Teachers, Foreign; Women teachers
Description: "Constructing Opportunity: American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan tells the story of Margaret Clark Griffis and Dora E. Schoonmaker, two extraordinary women who transcended the traditional boundaries of nation, class, and gender by living and working in Japan in the 1870s.

Elizabeth K. Eder draws on numerous primary sources, including unpublished diaries and letters, to give both an intimate biographical account of these women's lives and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of their professional lives in Japan. Thoroughly researched and immensely readable, Constructing Opportunity expands and challenges current views of the history of the U.S. teaching profession and the role of women as institution builders in Meiji Japan."--Jacket.