| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 373 pages) : plates, portraits |
| Contents |
My peaceful childhood in half-westernized Tokyo. My father and mother ; Family manners and customs ; Childhood -- Student days. Kindergarten and primary school, feudal discipline at the peeresses' cool ; High school years -- The awakening of youth. The obedient-wife-and-wise-mother principal and artistic culture ; Mental awakening -- Steps to the life of responsibilities. Marriage to a young baron ; Life of a bride in a big family system -- Domesticity in the mining field. Life on $25 a month ; Are miners human beings? -- My preparation to be self-supporting. The influence of the Russian Revolution in Japan ; My first trip to the United States ; My husband's disillusionment over Christian humanism ; My trip to Europe -- Business experience in social work : earthquake tragedy. Private secretary and shopkeeper ; Trip to Korea, Manchuria and China ; Birth-control movement : invasion of Sangerism in Japan ; Antagonism of my own class ; The earthquake -- Seeing the West again. America at the zenith of her capitalistic glory ; Europe in transition ; Women of the world -- Marital issues intensify. Domestic women and geisha problems ; A Japanese husband ; Escape in the philosophy of caricature -- What Buddhism offered. Sects and religious attitudes ; Meditation in the Zen Temple ; Nichiren, the sun-lotus -- The feminist front in Japan. My relation to feminism ; History of feminism in Japan -- A new start |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Katō, Shizue, 1897-2001
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Women's rights -- Japan
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Feminists -- Japan -- Biography
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069585
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0804712409 |
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9780804712408 |
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