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At a time when concern with the exploitation of young women in the assembly plants of developing countries is still a major social issue for gender and development specialists, Discovering Women's Voices. The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words, offers a vivid account of the lives of women who formed modern Japan’s ‘reserve army’ for textile mills. By analyzing works songs and oral testimonies of former silk-reeling operatives about their lives in the factory and in their native countryside, it challenges the long-standing assumption describing their history as merely exploitative, convincingly showing that factory life could appear as a window of opportunity or at least a lesser evil to workers born in rural underprivileged families.

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Author:   Sandra Schaal
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   14
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9789004464421

ISBN 10:   9004464425
Pages:   458
Publication Date:   28 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Gunnar Harðarson and Karl G. Johansson PART 1 Educational and Cultural Context 1 Canon, Dominican and Brother  The Life and Times of Jón Halldórsson in Bergen   Christian Etheridge 2 Bishop Jón Halldórsson and Clerical Culture in 14th-Century Iceland   Viðar Pálsson PART 2 Dominican Exempla and Saga Literature 3 Bishop Jón Halldórsson and 14th- Century Innovations in Saga Narrative  The Case of Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana   Gottskálk Jensson 4 Holy Ministry in Old Norse ævintýri   Hjalti Snær Ægisson 5 Clári saga and Its Continental Siblings  A Comparative Literary Approach to an Old Problem   Védís Ragnheiðardóttir PART 3 Manuscripts and Illuminations 6 Jón Halldórsson and Law Manuscripts of Western Iceland c. 1320–40   Stefan Drechsler 7 AM 657 a–b 4° and the Mouvance of Medieval Texts  Roles and Functions in the Transmission of Texts in a Manuscript Culture   Karl G. Johansson PART 4 Music and Liturgy 8 Liturgical Change and Liturgical Plurality in the Province of Nidaros  New Light on the Ordo Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae   Astrid Marner 9 Some Reflections on the Liturgy for St Þorlákr   Gisela Attinger PART 5  Manuscript Practice and Multiple Careers 10 Elucidating Charter Practice and Administrative Literacy in Four Works by Einarr Hafliðason   Embla Aae 11 Music and Manuscripts in Skálholt and Þingeyrar   Gunnar Harðarson Appendix 1: The Account of Bishop Jón Halldórsson (Jón’s þáttr) Appendix 2: Bishop Hákon of Bergen to Bishop Jón of Skálholt Appendix 3: The Booklist of Bishop Árni Sigurðsson Appendix 4: Contents of am 671 4° (by Stefan Drechsler) Index

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Sandra Schaal, Ph.D. (2006, University of Kyoto), is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Strasbourg. She has produced several works on modern Japan and is co-editor of Educations sentimentales en contextes orientaux (2018).

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