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Eder, Elizabeth K.

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Constructing opportunity: American women educators in early Meiji Japan.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Constructing opportunity: American women educators in early Meiji Japan./
Author:	Eder, Elizabeth K.
Description:	302 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Barbara Finkelstein.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-09A.
Subject:	Education, Bilingual and Multicultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3024918
ISBN:	0493366830

Constructing opportunity: American women educators in early Meiji Japan.
Eder, Elizabeth K.

Constructing opportunity: American women educators in early Meiji Japan. - 302 p.

Adviser: Barbara Finkelstein.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland College Park, 2001.

This dissertation explores opportunity structures and the lives of American women using two nineteenth-century overseas educators as an example. The study uses the methodology of history to examine Margaret Clark Griffis's (1838–1913) and Dora E. Schoonmaker's (1851–1934) life-cycles as teachers in terms of what they were able to imagine, the paths they chose to follow, and the opportunities they created while working within the constraints they encountered. Griffis's and Schoonmaker's careers as educators were exceptional because they transcended the traditional boundaries of nation, class, and gender by living and working in an alternative cultural setting outside the United States in the 1870s. By spending part of their teaching careers abroad, Griffis and Schoonmaker created new opportunities in early Meiji Japan that were not available to other women educators in the United States at this time.

ISBN: 0493366830Subjects--Topical Terms:

626653
Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.

Constructing opportunity: American women educators in early Meiji Japan.
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520 $a The first chapter comprises the conceptual and methodological introduction to the dissertation. Chapter 2 explores constraints and opportunities for American women through an analytical review of the literature focusing on concepts of womanhood in nineteenth-century U.S. society and the socially sanctioned roles that single, middle-class American women could take on as teachers, missionaries, and employees of foreign governments. Chapter 3 locates Griffis and Schoonmaker in the context of their parent culture—the social strata they came from as well as the larger social, political, and economic climate that shaped their aspirations and influenced their life choices. It also presents the commonalties and variations in their family backgrounds, their routes to teaching as a career, and the circumstances that motivated them to work overseas. Chapter 4 reveals Griffis's experiences as a foreign expert hired to teach English in the prestigious Tokyo Girl's School. Chapter 5 uncovers Schoonmaker's story as a missionary who established the first girl's school in Tokyo for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Chapter 6 analyzes the opportunities Griffis and Schoonmaker created while in Japan in order to determine whether they were new for American women educators or variations of what was available domestically. Finally, Chapter 7 examines their post-Japan years to establish whether they expanded on the opportunities they constructed in Japan or whether they imagined new and different possibilities when they returned to the United States. A dual conceptual structure for comparisons of opportunity structures emerged—the caretaker construct (Griffis) and the crusader construct (Schoonmaker)—that can be used to explore opportunity structures for other nineteenth-century American women.
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