This chapter will discuss the goals of women's rights advocates and the meaning of their demands in the context of turn-of-the-century state and society formation. It examines women's rights discourses in late nineteenth-century periodicals, some of them directed to a female readership and some directed to a general, often male, audience.
Sources include journals like Meiroku zasshi, Jogaku zasshi, Joken, Tokyo fujin kyofukai zasshi, and some regional publications. Some argued for a communitarian inclusiveness reminiscent of the Rousseauian ideas espoused in the s when neither ordinary men nor women had political rights.
Others, inspired by Mill, stressed improved education as a way for women to gain the subjectivity personhood or identity that would make them eligible for rights. There were also those who believed inclusion must follow the elimination of patriarchal sexual privileges, such as those implied by polygamy, prostitution, and patrilineality. Molony, B. Uno Eds. To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately, you may Download the file to your hard drive.
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