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This is the first book to examine the changing roles of women in Japan during the four decades following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, a period of sweeping political, social, and economic change. The book concentrates on those Japanese women who were outspoken critics of their society and the roles women were assigned in it, but also assesses the contributions women made to Japan during a period of rapid modernization. The struggle of Japanes...

A classic example of the best uses of women's history. Sievers' analysis ofthe development of feminist consciousness during the Meiji era (1868-1912) brilliantly illuminates two movements in late nineteenth-century Japan: the lively growth of dissent in the struggle for justice and human rights and the increasing intrusion of the 'modernizing' Japanese state into individuals' private lives.' Barbara Molony, Signs