Schoolgirls’ Resistance of Ryōsai Kenbo in Late Meiji Period

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200312.027How to use a DOI?

Keywords

schoolgirls, Ryōsai Kenbo, women education, late Meiji period

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate late Meiji high schoolgirls’ resistance to the good wife and wise mother norm by analyzing an individual case, fictional figures and research papers. This paper tries to show the resistance of girls and their reason from a different angle. Because more education opportunities and resources were available to girls in late Meiji period, more freedom of moving, more information from the outside world and the older generation’s liberal experiences gave girls the chance to cast doubt on women’s role of Ryōsai Kenbo. Some girls diverged from the ideal path expected by the society, and the public despised them as “degenerating girls”. These high school girls, though mostly failed in their struggles, signal the awakening of women’s rights.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiatong Ying
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/18
TI  - Schoolgirls’ Resistance of Ryōsai Kenbo in Late Meiji Period
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 155
EP  - 159
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200312.027
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200312.027
ID  - Ying2020
ER  -