Japanese Girls and Women #993359

In Japanese Girls and Women, Alice Mabel Bacon offers a vivid and deeply informed portrait of women’s lives in Japan during a period of extraordinary social transformation. Invited to Japan as an English teacher, Bacon taught at educational institutions for women, an experience that gave her direct insight into the education, customs, family life, and social expectations of Japanese girls and women.

Alice Mabel Bacon (1858–1918) was an American educator, writer, and specialist in Japanese culture. During her years in Japan, she developed close relationships with Japanese students and families. Drawing on these firsthand experiences, she wrote Japanese Girls and Women, a detailed and sympathetic study of women’s education, domestic life, customs, and social roles in nineteenth-century Japan.