By Elizabeth Dorn Lublin
In 1902 individuals of the japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) submitted a petition to the nationwide vitamin to abolish the customized of profitable stable deeds and patriotic provider with the bestowal of sake cups. Alcohol creation and intake, its individuals argued, harmed participants, endangered public welfare, and wasted very important resources.
The sake cup petition was once just one initiative in a wide-ranging software to reform private and non-private behaviour in Japan. among 1886 and 1912, the WCTU introduced campaigns to do away with prostitution, get rid of ingesting and smoking, unfold Christianity, and enhance the lives of ladies. As Elizabeth Dorn Lublin indicates, participants didn't passively settle for and propagate executive coverage yet felt an obligation to form it by means of defining social difficulties and influencing opinion. definite their ideals and reforms have been necessary to Japan's development, contributors couched their demands switch within the rhetorical language of nationwide growth. eventually, the WCTU's activism belies got notions of women's public involvement and political engagement in Meiji Japan.
This interesting examine of ladies sure by way of God, domestic, and kingdom will attract scholars and students of eastern background, non secular stories, and gender reviews.
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