{"product_id":"9780814797402","title":"Transnational Women's Activism: The United States, Japan, and Japanese Immigrant Communities in California, 1859-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing landmark trade agreements between Japan and the United States in the 1850s, Tokyo began importing a unique American commodity: Western social activism. As Japan sought to secure its future as a commercial power and American women pursued avenues of political expression, Protestant church-women and, later, members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) traveled to the Asian coast to promote Christian teachings and women's social activism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRumi Yasutake reveals in \u003cb\u003eTransnational Women's Activism\u003c\/b\u003e that the resulting American, Japanese, and first generation Japanese-American women's movements came to affect more than alcohol or even religion. While the WCTU employed the language of evangelism and Victorian family values, its members were tactfully expedient in accommodating their traditional causes to suffrage and other feminist goals, in addition to the various political currents flowing through Japan and the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploring such issues as gender struggles in the American Protestant church and bourgeois Japanese women's attitudes towards the \"pleasure class\" of geishas and prostitutes, Yasutake illuminates the motivations and experiences of American missionaries, U.S. WCTU workers, and their Japanese protégés. The diverse machinations of WCTU activism offer a compelling lesson in the complexities of cultural imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123907051760,"sku":"9780814797402","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814797402_p0.jpg?v=1763747758","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814797402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}