Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945

Preface ix Introduction 1(16) Gail Lee Bernstein PART ONE WOMEN AND THE FAMILY: 1600--1868 Women and Changes in the Household Division of Labor 17(25) Kathleen S. Uno The Life Cycle of Farm Women in Tokugawa Japan 42(29) Anne Walthall The Deaths of Old Women: Folklore and Differential Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Japan 71(17) Laurel L. Cornell The Shingaku Woman: Straight from the Heart 88(20) Jennifer Robertson Female Bunjin: The Life of Poet-Painter Ema Saiko 108(23) Patricia Fister Women in an All-Male Industry: The Case of Sake Brewer Tatsu'uma Kiyo 131(20) Joyce Chapman Lebra PART TWO THE MODERN DISCOURSE ON FAMILY, GENDER, AND WORK: 1868--1945 The Meiji State's Policy Toward Women, 1890--1910 151(24) Sharon H. Nolte Sally Ann Hastings Yosano Akiko and the Taisho Debate over the ``New Woman'' 175(24) Laurel Rasplica Rodd Middle-Class Working Women During the Interwar Years 199(18) Margit Nagy Activism Among Women in the Taisho Cotton Textile Industry 217(22) Barbara Molony The Modern Girl as Militant 239(28) Miriam Silverberg Doubling Expectations: Motherhood and Women's Factory Work Under State Management in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s 267(29) Yoshiko Miyake Women and War: The Japanese Film Image 296(19) William B. Hauser Afterword 315(8) Jane Caplan Glossary 323(2) Contributors 325(4) Index 329