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Constructing opportunity : American women educators in early Meiji Japan / Elizabeth K. Eder.
Author
Eder, Elizabeth K.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2003.
Description
xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Forrestal Annex - A
LA2383.J3 E34 2003
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Subject(s)
Teachers, Foreign
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Japan
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Biography
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Women teachers
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Japan
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Biography
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Teachers, Foreign
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Japan
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History
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19th century
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Women teachers
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Japan
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History
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19th century
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Griffis, Margaret Clark
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Soper, Dora Schoonmaker
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Series
Studies of modern Japan
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Summary note
"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Elizabeth K. Eder draws on numerous primary sources, including unpublished diaries and letters, to give both an intimate biographical account of these women's lives and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-266) and index.
Contents
Opportunity Structures and the Lives of American Women, 1870-1900
Reworking Existing Paradigms
Scholarly Contexts
Working without Seeming To: The Teaching Profession as a Form of Opportunity
Formative Communities
The Importance of the Home
The Importance of the Church
The Importance of School
Choosing an Occupation
Becoming a Teacher
Griffis's Early Teaching Positions
Schoonmaker's Early Teaching Positions
Choosing to Teach Abroad
Teaching Abroad as Domestic Duty: Margaret Clark Griffis, Tokyo Public School Teacher
Teaching Abroad as Moral Mission: Dora E. Schoonmaker, Missionary Educator in Tokyo
Opportunities without Parallel
Unparalleled Opportunities
Personal Authority
Freedom of Action
Increased Professional Opportunities
Increased Status
Increased Lifestyle and Financial Gain
Acquisition and Exercise of Power
Returning Home: Opportunities Re-imagined?
Return to Philadelphia
Return to Illinois
Chronology: Margaret Clark Griffis (1838-1913)
Chronology: Dora E. Schoonmaker (1851-1934)
Girls' Schools Founded in Tokyo in the Early Meiji Period (1868-1879)
Photograph of Margaret Clark Griffis with Japanese students, c. 1874
Photograph of Dora E. Schoonmaker, date unknown
Photograph of the Schoonmaker Memorial, Aoyama Gakuin University, 1996
Concepts of Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Society
Women's Roles as Teachers
Women's Educational History
Teachers and Teaching
Women's Roles as Missionaries.
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ISBN
0739106406 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780739106402 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2003002590
OCLC
51615335
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