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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eder, Elizabeth K.

Series:

Studies of modern Japan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Griffis, Margaret Clark.

Soper, Dora Schoonmaker.

Teachers, Foreign--Japan--Biography.

Teachers, Foreign.

Women teachers--Japan--Biography.

Women teachers.

Teachers, Foreign--Japan--History--19th century.

Women teachers--Japan--History--19th century.

History.

Japan.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2003]

Contents:

Chapter I Opportunity Structures and the Lives of American Women, 1870-1900 1

Reworking Existing Paradigms 5

Scholarly Contexts 7

Chapter II Working without Seeming To: The Teaching Profession as a Form of Opportunity 19

Formative Communities 20

The Importance of the Home 21

The Importance of the Church 24

The Importance of School 25

Choosing an Occupation 26

Becoming a Teacher 30

Griffis's Early Teaching Positions 30

Schoonmaker's Early Teaching Positions 33

Choosing to Teach Abroad 38

Chapter III Teaching Abroad as Domestic Duty: Margaret Clark Griffis, Tokyo Public School Teacher 67

Chapter IV Teaching Abroad as Moral Mission: Dora E. Schoonmaker, Missionary Educator in Tokyo 93

Chapter V Opportunities without Parallel 123

Unparalleled Opportunities 124

Personal Authority 125

Freedom of Action 126

Increased Professional Opportunities 127

Increased Status 132

Increased Lifestyle and Financial Gain 134

Acquisition and Exercise of Power 139

Chapter VI Returning Home: Opportunities Re-imagined? 149

Return to Philadelphia 150

Return to Illinois 161

Table A.1 Chronology: Margaret Clark Griffis (1838-1913) 197

Table A.2 Chronology: Dora E. Schoonmaker (1851-1934) 199

Table A.3 Girls' Schools Founded in Tokyo in the Early Meiji Period (1868-1879) 202

Figure A.1 Photograph of Margaret Clark Griffis with Japanese students, c. 1874 205

Figure A.2 Photograph of Dora E. Schoonmaker, date unknown 206

Figure A.3 Photograph of the Schoonmaker Memorial, Aoyama Gakuin University, 1996 207

Concepts of Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Society 210

Women's Roles as Teachers 213

Women's Educational History 213

Teachers and Teaching 217

Women's Roles as Missionaries 222

Women's Roles as Employees of Foreign Governments: Japan as an Example 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.

ISBN:

0739106406

OCLC:

51615335