Reflections on the Way to the Gallows - Rebel Women in Prewar Japan

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

ONE Introduction

TWO People's Rights and National Rights
FUKUDA HIDEKO

THREE Reflections on the Way to the Gallows
KANNO SUGAKO

FOUR The Road to Nihilism
KANEKO FUMIKO

FIVE The Sekirankai
THE RED WAVE SOCIETY
SAKAI MAGARA
HASHIURA HARUKO
KUTSUMI FUSAKO
YAMAKAWA KIKUE

SIX From the Factories and Rice Paddies
TANNO SETSU
TENANT DISPUTES IN KISAKI VILLAGE
TAKIZAWA Mil, IKEDA SEKI, SATO TSUGI

SEVEN The World of the Stars
YAMASHIRO TOMOE

Notes
Index

About the author

Mikiso Hane (1922-2003) was Szold Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Summary

The Japanese women whose memoirs, journals and essays are collected in this volume constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of World War II. The women reveal why they joined left-wing groups in order to fight oppression and injustice.

Product details

• Authors: Mikiso Hane
• Assisted by: Mikiso Hane (Editor), Mikiso Hane (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.1993
• EAN: 9780520084216
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08421-6
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights