Marcia Yonemoto, “The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan” (U of California Press, 2016)

Were women a problem in early modern Japan? If they were, what was the nature of the problem they posed? For whom, and why? Marcia Yonemoto‘s new book explores these questions in a compelling study that brings together the public discourse on women in the Tokugawa period (including prescriptive literature,...