Dissertation Information for Rumi Yasutake NAME: - Rumi Yasutake
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1998)
ADVISORS: - Ellen Carol DuBois
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Fred G. Notehelfer - Mariko Tamanoi - Valerie Matsumoto
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Transnational women's activism: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Japan and beyond, 1858-1920
Abstract: This dissertation examines the expansion of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) from the United States, to Japan, and back to Issei (the first generation Japanese American) communities in northern California in the context of America's global expansion and Japan's aspiration for imperialistic power between 1858 and 1920. Focusing on WCTU activism, one form of American women's activism in the evangelical tradition, the dissertation examines how American Protestant missionary women and World WCTU workers transferred female activism to Japanese and Issei churchwomen and how Japanese and Issei churchwomen translated it into their culture and communities.
The middle-class American and Japanese churchwomen, who carried out WCTU activism in Japan and in northern California Issei communities, shared bitter experiences as women in the hierarchical gender system of each society. However, although Japanese women agreed with American churchwomen that the Protestant middle-class gender system provided higher status and better treatment of women than Japan's and they were eager to emulate American churchwomen's ideology of womanhood and strategies of female activism, Japanese women's WCTU activism was transformed in the Japanese culture and political milieu. In Japan during the Meiji era (1868-1912), facing the anti-Christian sentiments and rising nationalism, WCTU activism accommodated itself to the imperialistic ambition of the fledgling nation of Imperial Japan. In turn-of-the-century northern California, encountering the mounting anti-Japanese hostility, Issei women's WCTU activism was most concerned about protecting their society. In the transnational WCTU activism, American, Japanese, and Issei women had different agendas and resorted to different strategies to increase their influence.
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