Mikiso Hane, translator & editor
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows
Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
$24.95, £16.95 paperback
9780520084216
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340 pages,
September 1988, Only available in Include British Commonwealth, North America, Philippines, Ireland, Iraq, Jordan, South Africa
Also in: East Asian Studies; Women's Studies
September 1988, Only available in Include British Commonwealth, North America, Philippines, Ireland, Iraq, Jordan, South Africa
Also in: East Asian Studies; Women's Studies
In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Pacific War.
"Profoundly moving. . . . Readers mining this material, interacting directly with the authors, cannot help but reassess the historically static, stereotypical image of 'Japanese Woman' familiar to us all. . . . We see women who were complex, real people."—Barbara Molony, Journal of Asian Studies
"[Hane] uses biographies and memoirs to tell the stories of 13 Japanese women who joined left-wing groups to fight . . . injustices and remained steadfast despite hunger, homelessness, torture and imprisonment."—Elizabeth Hanson, New York Times Book Review
"Through these translations Mikiso Hane has reunited women with a historical political tradition, showing us how vital a part of that prewar protest they were."—Women's Review of Books
"[Hane] uses biographies and memoirs to tell the stories of 13 Japanese women who joined left-wing groups to fight . . . injustices and remained steadfast despite hunger, homelessness, torture and imprisonment."—Elizabeth Hanson, New York Times Book Review
"Through these translations Mikiso Hane has reunited women with a historical political tradition, showing us how vital a part of that prewar protest they were."—Women's Review of Books
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