Garrett L Washington
Biographic Data
| ID | 1257936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garrett L Washington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garrett L |
| FAMILY NAME | Washington |
| SIGNATURE | WASHINGTON G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Businesswoman in Meiji Japan
Women are conspicuously underexamined in the business and economic histories of modern Japan. Although wives and widows played central roles in the financial management of their families and family businesses, they have typically remained hidden behind the names and accomplishments of their more visible male relations. This was true not only in Japan but also in other countries undergoing rapid industrialization in the long nineteenth century. So…
In Close Association
Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko et al
Reviewed by: Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko et al. Garrett L. Washington (bio) Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Edited by Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko, and Sugano Noriko. University of Michigan Press, 2020. vi, 289 pages. $85.00, cloth; $30.95, paper. Since the late 1990s, scholars of women and gender in Japan have been relying less and …
Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan
Christians have never constituted one percent of Japan’s population, yet Christianity had a disproportionately large influence on Japan’s social, intellectual, and political development. This happened despite the Tokugawa shogunate’s successful efforts to criminalize Christianity and even after the Meiji government took measures to limit its influence. From journalism and literature, to medicine, education, and politics, the mark of Protestant Ja…
Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia
This edited volume explores the complex roles that Christian ideas and institutions played in the construction of modern womanhood in East Asia. While contributing to gender dynamics that disprivileged women in China, Japan, and Korea, Christianity was also instrumental in women’s efforts to empower themselves and participate in the public sphere. Many literate East Asian women mobilized Christian beliefs, knowledge, institutions, and networks to…
Japan's Holy War
Pulpits as Lecterns
Beginning in the 1890s, Protestant churches in Tokyo offered a new kind of social space that encouraged an open, verbal communication of ideas about a modern and improved Japan. Such churches differed dramatically from the majority of Japanese secular and religious gathering spaces that were directly influenced by their strong ties to state authority. At church, pastors and respected lay speakers told listeners to individually imagine the nation …
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Pulpits as Lecterns
Beginning in the 1890s, Protestant churches in Tokyo offered a new kind of social space that encouraged an open, verbal communication of ideas about a modern and improved Japan. Such churches differed dramatically from the majority of Japanese secular and religious gathering spaces that were directly influenced by their strong ties to state authority. At church, pastors and respected lay speakers told listeners to individually imagine the nation …
Japan's Holy War
Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia
This edited volume explores the complex roles that Christian ideas and institutions played in the construction of modern womanhood in East Asia. While contributing to gender dynamics that disprivileged women in China, Japan, and Korea, Christianity was also instrumental in women’s efforts to empower themselves and participate in the public sphere. Many literate East Asian women mobilized Christian beliefs, knowledge, institutions, and networks to…
Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan
Christians have never constituted one percent of Japan’s population, yet Christianity had a disproportionately large influence on Japan’s social, intellectual, and political development. This happened despite the Tokugawa shogunate’s successful efforts to criminalize Christianity and even after the Meiji government took measures to limit its influence. From journalism and literature, to medicine, education, and politics, the mark of Protestant Ja…
Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko et al
Reviewed by: Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko et al. Garrett L. Washington (bio) Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Edited by Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko, and Sugano Noriko. University of Michigan Press, 2020. vi, 289 pages. $85.00, cloth; $30.95, paper. Since the late 1990s, scholars of women and gender in Japan have been relying less and …
In Close Association
A Businesswoman in Meiji Japan
Women are conspicuously underexamined in the business and economic histories of modern Japan. Although wives and widows played central roles in the financial management of their families and family businesses, they have typically remained hidden behind the names and accomplishments of their more visible male relations. This was true not only in Japan but also in other countries undergoing rapid industrialization in the long nineteenth century. So…
Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works)