Women and class in Japanese history
By: edited by Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, and Wakita Haruko.
Contributors: Tonomura, Hitomi.; Walthall, Anne.; Wakita, Haruko, 1934-
Series: Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies -- no. 25
Publisher: Center for Japanese Studies, the University of Michigan; U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Women -- Japan -- History; Sex role -- Japan -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chieftain pairs and corulers: female sovereignty in early Japan / Joan R. Piggott; title: Trousers, status, and gender in ancient dress codes / Takeda Sachiko ; trans. by Joan R. Piggott and Hitomi Tonomura; title: Medieval nuns and nunneries: the case of Hokkeji / Hosokawa Ryōichi ; trans. by Paul Goner; title: The medieval household and gender roles within the imperial family, nobility, merchants, and commoners / Wakita Haruko ; trans. by Gary P. Leupp; title: Women's work and status in the changing medieval economy / Tabata Yasuko ; trans. by Hitomi Tonomura; title: Women's associations and religious expression in the medieval Japanese village / Katō Mieko ; trans. by Suzanne Gay; title: Sexual violence against women: legal and extralegal treatment in premodern warrior societies / Hitomi Tonomura; title: Imagining working women in early modern Japan / Yokoto Fuyuhiko ; trans. by Mariko Asano Tamanoi; title: Prostitution and public authority in early modern Japan / Sone Hiromi ; trans. by Akiko Terashima and Anne Walthall; title: The reproductive revolution at the end of the Tokugawa period / Ochiai Emiko; title: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration: texts of self and gender / Anne Walthall; title: Diaries as gendered texts / Nishikawa Yūko ; trans. by Anne Walthall; title: Mobilized from within: women and hygiene in modern Japan / Narita Ryūichi ; trans. by Julie Rousseau; title: Japanese nationalism and the female body: a critical reassessment of the discourse of social reformers on factory women / Mariko Asano Tamanoi; title: Appendix: past developments and future issues in the study of women's history in Japan: a bibliographical essay / Wakita Haruko ..., [et al.].