Kathleen Uno

Biographic Data

ID598647
NAMEKathleen Uno
GIVEN NAMESKathleen
FAMILY NAMEUno
SIGNATUREUNO K
AFFILIATIONSTemple University, Japan
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Passages to Modernity

    Kathleen Uno, Kathleen S UnoBOOKPassages to Modernity2017

    Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. At the extreme, they are stereotyped as "education mothers" (kyoiku mama), completely dedicated to the academic success of their children. Children of working mothers are pitied; day-care users, both children and mothers, are faintly disparaged for their inadequate home lives; hired babysitters are virtually unknown. Yet historical evidence reveals a strikingl…

  • Civil Society, State, and Institutions for Young Children in Modern Japan

    Open AccessKathleen UnoARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly2009References: 4

    Research on the history of children and childhood in modern Japan (1868–1945) reveals that issues related to civil society, state, and the establishment of institutions for young children can be explored beyond the transatlantic world. This brief essay considers the role of state and nonstate agents in the genesis of institutions for young children in modern Japan after briefly surveying historiography, a few basic terms, and earlier patterns of …

  • Gendering Modern Japanese History

    Open AccessBarbara Molony, Kathleen UnoEDITORBOOKGendering Modern Japanese History2005

    "Although modern Japanese history has not yet been restructured by a foregrounding of gender, historians of Japan have begun to embrace gender as an analytic category. The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. All of them take the position that history is gendered; that is, historians …

  • Passages to Modernity

    Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Kathleen Uno et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2001

  • Passages to Modernity

    David R Ambaras, Kathleen Uno et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2000Cited by: 4

    Contemporary Japanese women are often presented as devoted full-time wives and mothers. Yet child-tending by non-maternal caregivers was widely accepted at all levels of Japanese society at the beginning of the 20th century. This study traces the rise of day-care centres and related areas

  • Laboring Classes in Urban Japan

    Open AccessKathleen UnoARTICLEJournal of Urban History1998

  • Broken Silence

    Kathleen Uno, Sandra BuckleyARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1997

  • Questioning Patrilineality

    Kathleen UnoARTICLEpositions asia critique1996Cited by: 1

    Research Article| August 01 1996 Questioning Patrilineality: On Western Studies of the Japanese Ie Kathleen Uno Kathleen Uno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1996) 4 (3): 569–594. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-4-3-569 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen Uno; Questioning Patrilineality: On Western Studies of the Japanese Ie. positions 1 August 1996; 4 (3): 569–59…

  • Factory Girls

    Kathleen UnoREVIEWPacific Affairs1992

    Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for owners that in turn benefited the state, the labor of these women and enabled their tenant farming families to continue paying high rents in the countryside. shows that through their experiences as Japan's…