Flowers in Salt
Sievers, Sharon L.
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