Constructing Opportunity
Constructing Opportunity

Author: Elizabeth K. Eder

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780739106402

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Constructing Opportunity: American Women Educators in Early Meiji Japan tells the story of Margaret Clark Griffis and Dora E. Schoonmaker, two extraordinary women who 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. Author Elizabeth K. Eder draws on numerous primary sources, including unpublished diaries and letters, to give both an intimate biographical account of these women's lives and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of their professional lives in Japan.

The White Woman's Other Burden
The White Woman's Other Burden

Author: Kumari Jayawardena

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 113665707X

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In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.