How Did American and Japanese Gender Hierarchies Shape Japanese Women's Participation in the Transnational WCTU Movement in the 1880s?

Autor:	Yasutake, Rumi
Předmět:	SOCIAL conditions of women JAPANESE women SOCIAL conditions of American women GENDER role GENDER role -- Religious aspects CHRISTIANITY CHURCH history
Zdroj:	Women & Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000; 2009, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p1-8, 8p
Abstrakt:	The article presents an examination into the history of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WWCTU) and the influence of trans-cultural gender hierarchy attitudes on the participation of Japanese women in the United States and Japan. Background information is given on the WWCTU and its activities in the late 19th-century. Comments are given contrasting the social attitudes of Japan and the United States regarding gender. The ideological conflicts which then arose within Western Christian missionary circles in Japan are discussed in-depth.
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