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Constructing opportunity : American women educators in early Meiji Japan / Elizabeth K. Eder.

Title: Constructing opportunity : American women educators in early Meiji Japan / Elizabeth K. Eder.
Author: Eder, Elizabeth K.

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Description

xiv, 273 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 Elizabeth K. Eder draws on numerous primary sources, including unpublished diaries and letters, to give both an intimate biographical account of these women's lives and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies of modern Japan

Subjects

Teachers, Foreign > Japan > Biography
Griffis, Margaret Clark
Teachers, Foreign > Japan > History > 19th century
Women teachers > Japan > Biography
Soper, Dora Schoonmaker
Women teachers > Japan > History > 19th century

ISBN

0739106406 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003002590

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries