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• catalog abstract ""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 Japan in the 1870s. Elizabeth K. Eder draws on numerous primary sources, including unpublished diaries and letters, to give both an intimate biographical account of these women's lives and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of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. Thoroughly researched and immensely readable, Constructing Opportunity expands and challenges current views of the history of the U.S. teaching profession and the role of women as institution builders in Meiji Japan."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13002601.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""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 Japan in the 1870s.".
• catalog description "Elizabeth K. Eder draws on numerous primary sources, including unpublished diaries and letters, to give both an intimate biographical account of these women's lives and an examination of the social and institutional frameworks of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. Thoroughly researched and immensely readable, Constructing Opportunity expands and challenges current views of the history of the U.S. teaching profession and the role of women as institution builders in Meiji Japan."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index.".
• catalog description "Opportunity Structures and the Lives of American Women, 1870-1900 -- Reworking Existing Paradigms -- Scholarly Contexts -- Working without Seeming To: The Teaching Profession as a Form of Opportunity -- Formative Communities -- The Importance of the Home -- The Importance of the Church -- The Importance of School -- Choosing an Occupation -- Becoming a Teacher -- Griffis's Early Teaching Positions -- Schoonmaker's Early Teaching Positions -- Choosing to Teach Abroad -- Teaching Abroad as Domestic Duty: Margaret Clark Griffis, Tokyo Public School Teacher -- Teaching Abroad as Moral Mission: Dora E. Schoonmaker, Missionary Educator in Tokyo -- Opportunities without Parallel -- Unparalleled Opportunities -- Personal Authority -- Freedom of Action -- Increased Professional Opportunities -- Increased Status -- Increased Lifestyle and Financial Gain -- Acquisition and Exercise of Power -- Returning Home: Opportunities Re-imagined? -- Return to Philadelphia -- Return to Illinois -- Chronology: Margaret Clark Griffis (1838-1913) -- Chronology: Dora E. Schoonmaker (1851-1934) -- Girls' Schools Founded in Tokyo in the Early Meiji Period (1868-1879) -- Photograph of Margaret Clark Griffis with Japanese students, c. 1874 -- Photograph of Dora E. Schoonmaker, date unknown -- Photograph of the Schoonmaker Memorial, Aoyama Gakuin University, 1996 -- Concepts of Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Society -- Women's Roles as Teachers -- Women's Educational History -- Teachers and Teaching -- Women's Roles as Missionaries.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 273 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Constructing opportunity.".
• catalog identifier "0739106406 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Constructing opportunity.".
• catalog isPartOf "Studies of modern Japan".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books,".
• catalog relation "Constructing opportunity.".
• catalog spatial "Japan".
• catalog subject "371.1/0092 B 21".
• catalog subject "Griffis, Margaret Clark.".
• catalog subject "LA2383.J3 E34 2003".
• catalog subject "Soper, Dora Schoonmaker.".
• catalog subject "Teachers, Foreign Japan Biography.".
• catalog subject "Teachers, Foreign Japan History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Women teachers Japan Biography.".
• catalog subject "Women teachers Japan History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Opportunity Structures and the Lives of American Women, 1870-1900 -- Reworking Existing Paradigms -- Scholarly Contexts -- Working without Seeming To: The Teaching Profession as a Form of Opportunity -- Formative Communities -- The Importance of the Home -- The Importance of the Church -- The Importance of School -- Choosing an Occupation -- Becoming a Teacher -- Griffis's Early Teaching Positions -- Schoonmaker's Early Teaching Positions -- Choosing to Teach Abroad -- Teaching Abroad as Domestic Duty: Margaret Clark Griffis, Tokyo Public School Teacher -- Teaching Abroad as Moral Mission: Dora E. Schoonmaker, Missionary Educator in Tokyo -- Opportunities without Parallel -- Unparalleled Opportunities -- Personal Authority -- Freedom of Action -- Increased Professional Opportunities -- Increased Status -- Increased Lifestyle and Financial Gain -- Acquisition and Exercise of Power -- Returning Home: Opportunities Re-imagined? -- Return to Philadelphia -- Return to Illinois -- Chronology: Margaret Clark Griffis (1838-1913) -- Chronology: Dora E. Schoonmaker (1851-1934) -- Girls' Schools Founded in Tokyo in the Early Meiji Period (1868-1879) -- Photograph of Margaret Clark Griffis with Japanese students, c. 1874 -- Photograph of Dora E. Schoonmaker, date unknown -- Photograph of the Schoonmaker Memorial, Aoyama Gakuin University, 1996 -- Concepts of Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Society -- Women's Roles as Teachers -- Women's Educational History -- Teachers and Teaching -- Women's Roles as Missionaries.".
• catalog title "Constructing opportunity : American women educators in early Meiji Japan / Elizabeth K. Eder.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".