Author : Elizabeth K. Eder
Release : 2003
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 402/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Constructing Opportunity by : Elizabeth K. Eder
Download or read book Constructing Opportunity written by Elizabeth K. Eder. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Author Elizabeth K. Eder draws on numerous primary sources, including unpublished diaries and letters, to give both an intimate biographical account of these women's lives and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of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.