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Week 7
 Meiji women's writing and Japanese feminism

T 10/24
Intro: HIGUCHI Ichiyô, "Troubled Waters" and "Child's Play" in Robert Danly, In the shade of spring leaves : the life and writings of Higuchi Ichiyo, a woman of letters in Meiji Japan

Th10/26
Sharon H. NOLTE and Sally Ann HASTINGS, "The Meiji State's Policy Toward Women, 1890-1910" Recreating Japanese Women
Laurel Rasplica RODD, "Yosano Akiko and the Taishô Debate over the 'New Woman'" Recreating Japanese Women
E. Patricia TSURUMI, "Visions of Women and the New Society in Conflict: Yamakawa Kikue versus Takamure Itsue" (CR)
4:30 talk by Sachiko SHIBATA SCHIERBECK, "To Marry or Not to Marry"