Japanese Girls and Women

American Alice Mabel Bacon lived in Japan for many years before writing this famous study, a diary-like essay that explains many social customs that are still alive in the present day. "It is of the neglected half [of Japan] that I have written, in the hope that the whole fabric of Japanese social life will be better comprehended when the women of the country, also the homes that they make, are better known and understood."
Contents:
Childhood
Education
Marriage and Divorce
Wife and Mother
Old Age
Court Life
Life in Castle and Yashiki
Samurai Women
Peasant Women
Life in the Cities
Domestic Service
Epilogue
This work was originally published in 1905.