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Author:

Yasutake, Rumi, 1958-

Title:

Transnational women's activism : the United States, Japan, and Japanese immigrant communities in California, 1859-1920 / Rumi Yasutake.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Women social reformers--Japan.
Women social reformers--California.
Women missionaries--Japan.
Women in church work--Japan.
Women in church work--California.
Women--Japan--Social conditions--19th century.
Women--Japan--Social conditions--20th century.
Japanese--California--Social conditions--19th century.
Japanese--California--Social conditions--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-178) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Tilling the ground -- Sprouting feminist consciousness -- Managing WCTU activism in the Japanese way in Late Meiji Japan -- Beyond Japan to California.

ISBN:

9780814797037 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814797032 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54966384

LCCN:

2004007944

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)