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The "woman question" as a site of conflict: Mission schools for women in modern Japan, 1872--1899.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The "woman question" as a site of conflict: Mission schools for women in modern Japan, 1872--1899./
Author:	Seat, Karen Kay.
Description:	210 p.
Notes:	Chair: Katie Geneva Cannon.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-10A.
Subject:	Education, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9990350
ISBN:	059997205X

The "woman question" as a site of conflict: Mission schools for women in modern Japan, 1872--1899.
Seat, Karen Kay.

The "woman question" as a site of conflict: Mission schools for women in modern Japan, 1872--1899. - 210 p.

Chair: Katie Geneva Cannon.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2000.

Examining gender, education, and cross-cultural interactions in an age of imperialism, this dissertation centers on the story of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (WFMS) as it developed into an important institution of women's activity in the U.S. and around the world. In examining the WFMS in Japan, I give special attention to the story of one of its leading mission schools for Japanese girls and women, Kwassui Jo Gakko, and the school's founder, WFMS missionary Elizabeth Russell.

ISBN: 059997205XSubjects--Topical Terms:

599244
Education, History of.

The "woman question" as a site of conflict: Mission schools for women in modern Japan, 1872--1899.
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520 $a Examining gender, education, and cross-cultural interactions in an age of imperialism, this dissertation centers on the story of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (WFMS) as it developed into an important institution of women's activity in the U.S. and around the world. In examining the WFMS in Japan, I give special attention to the story of one of its leading mission schools for Japanese girls and women, Kwassui Jo Gakko, and the school's founder, WFMS missionary Elizabeth Russell.
520 $a Using primary documents from mission schools and other sources, I argue that the WFMS in Japan was compelled to continuously adapt to both internal and external challenges to its professed gender ideologies, often contradicting its stated goal of creating “Christian wives and mothers.” By 1899, the most successful WFMS mission schools in Japan had moved far beyond their initial goals of Christianizing the “domestic sphere” of Japan, as they offered rigorous academic courses and developed industrial departments, providing female students with skills for waged labor and professional careers in the public sphere.
520 $a This apparent contradiction occurred for a number of reasons. First, keeping their schools viable was of central concern to missionaries, as schools were one of the most effective means for missionaries to gain access to potential converts. However, developing successful schools responsive to local and national circumstances did not always fit smoothly with missionaries' original purposes. When the Japanese government began to aggressively develop its own program for women's education in the 1890's, even mission schools that had steadfastly resisted offering “unwomanly” subjects found that providing a higher level of education than that offered by competing public schools was an effective means of continuing to attract students.
520 $a Additionally, missionary women's own experiences as professionals and their interactions with the changing lives of women in Japan led some of them to reconsider their missions' original goals and methods in “uplifting” womanhood, as they began to see expanding women's roles in the public sphere as a positive goal. WFMS missionary Elizabeth Russell exemplified this transformation, as she increasingly supported women's rights and higher education for women.
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