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Author:

Lublin, Elizabeth Dorn, 1968-

Title:

Reforming Japan : the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji period / Elizabeth Dorn Lublin.

Publisher:

UBC Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

ix, 252 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Woman's Christian Temperance Union--History.
Women social reformers--Japan--History.
Social problems--Japan--History.
Japan--Social conditions--1868-1912.
Japan--Social policy.
Japan--Moral conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index.

Contents:

The founding of the WCTU in Japan: 1886 -- The tumultuous early years of the Tokyo WCTU: 1886-92 -- The organization and development of the Japan WCTU: 1892-1912 -- The fight against prostitution -- The struggle to create a sober society -- Imperial loyalty and patriotic service Japan WCTU-style.

Series:

Asian religions and society series, 1705-4761.

ISBN:

0774818174 (pbk.)
9780774818179 (pbk.)
0774818166
9780774818162

OCLC:

(OCoLC)499430108

LCCN:

2010293832

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)