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Elizabeth Dorn Lublin - Reforming Japan: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period - 9780774818162 - V9780774818162
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Reforming Japan: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period

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Description for Reforming Japan: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period Hardback. Challenges received notions about women's political involvement and engagement with the state in Meiji Japan by exploring the activism of members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Series: Asian Religions and Society Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLW; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.

In 1902 the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)petitioned the Japanese government to abolish the custom of rewardinggood deeds and patriotic service with the bestowal of sake cups.Alcohol production and consumption, its members argued, harmedindividuals, endangered public welfare, and wasted vital resources.

The petition was only one initiative in a wide-ranging program toreform public and private behaviour. Between 1886 and 1912, the WCTUlaunched campaigns to eliminate prostitution, eradicate drinking,spread Christianity, and improve the lives of women. As Elizabeth DornLublin shows, members did not passively accept and propagate governmentpolicy but felt a duty to shape it by defining social problems andinfluencing opinion. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Asian Religions and Society Series
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774818162
SKU
V9780774818162
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About Elizabeth Dorn Lublin
Elizabeth Dorn Lublin is an assistant professor ofhistory at Wayne State University.

Reviews for Reforming Japan: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period
The author makes a valuable contribution to Japanese and feminist history...revising the traditional view that women were not involved in politics during this period. Highly recommended. All collections in modern Japanese history and the history of feminism in East Asia
M.D. Ericson, University of Maryland University College
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