LEADER 04545nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910786572903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-85473-2 010 $a90-04-24435-2 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004244351 035 $a(CKB)2670000000309455 035 $a(EBL)1081575 035 $a(OCoLC)821180654 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000785161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11410391 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000785161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10783612 035 $a(PQKB)11259272 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004244351 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1081575 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10631762 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL416723 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1081575 035 $a(PPN)170440656 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000309455 100 $a20121012d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRyosai Kenbo$b[electronic resource] $ethe educational ideal of 'good wife, wise mother' in modern Japan /$fby Koyama Shizuko ; translated by Stephen Filler 210 $aBoston $cBrill$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 216 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aThe intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives ;$vv. 1 311 $a90-04-23061-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tIntroduction: Approach to the Issues /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tThe Formation of Ry?sai Kenbo Thought /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tRy?sai Kenbo Thought and the Public Education System /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tThe Causes of Change /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tThe Reconfiguration of Ry?sai Kenbo Thought /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tThe Evolution of the Concept of Ry?sai Kenbo in Morality Textbooks /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tEpilogue: The Meaning of Ry?sai Kenbo Thought /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tAppendix 1: List of Morality Textbooks (Sh?shin Ky?kasho) Consulted for this Study /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tBibliography /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tIndex of Persons /$rKoyama Shizuko --$tIndex of Subjects /$rKoyama Shizuko. 330 $aWinner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award The famous ry?sai kenbo , or ?good wife, wise mother? role of women was not, after all, a traditional Confucian view but a modern construct. In fact, its first appearance in Japan, as Koyama Shizuko points out, was in the latter half of the nineteenth century ? due principally to the influence of European ideas about women. Girls at the time were proud to fulfill their new role of contributing to not just the family but to the formation of the state. Koyama?s discovery has transformed how we see modern women?s history in Japan and the similar discoveries that have followed regarding China's ?wise wife, good mother? and Korea's ?wise mother, good wife.? Previous studies have interpreted ry?sai kenbo thought, which was widely recognized in nationally-sanctioned educational standards, as a ?backward?, ?feudal? or even ?reactionary? view of women, and therefore peculiar to girls? and womens? education in prewar Japan. As a result, ry?sai kenbo thought was seen to be completely distinct from postwar views of women in Japan and Western Europe that have also emphasized the role of women as wives and mothers. Here, however, ry?sai kenbo thought is examined as a mode of thought inseparable from such issues as the formation of the modern citizen-state and the formation of the ?modern family.? Instead of reducing it to a specific, pre-World War II Japanese ideal of womanhood, Koyama argues that ry?sai kenbo thought is, in fact, a modern mode of thought related to, and having much in common with, views of the qualities desirable in a woman both in postwar Japanese society, as well as in modern Western nations and beyond. 410 0$aIntimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives ;$vv. 1. 606 $aWives$zJapan$xAttitudes 606 $aMothers$zJapan$xAttitudes 606 $aWomen$xEducation$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zJapan$xConduct of life 615 0$aWives$xAttitudes. 615 0$aMothers$xAttitudes. 615 0$aWomen$xEducation$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xConduct of life. 676 $a305.40952 700 $aShizuko$b Koyama$01513103 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786572903321 996 $aRyosai Kenbo$93747348 997 $aUNINA