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Democratizing Women: American Women and the U.S Occupation of Japan, 1945-1951

Gleich-Anthony, Jeanne M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1195098494

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, History (Arts and Sciences).
Examining the activities of American women involved in the U.S. Occupation of post-WWII Japan, this dissertation focuses on the programs and policies designed, implemented, and supported by key female Occupation personnel within SCAP’s administrative bureaucracy. These women, as members of Government Section’s “Constitutional Assembly,” Civil Information and Education Section’s Women’s Information Branch, Economic and Scientific Section’s Wages and Working Conditions Branch, Public Health and Welfare Section’s Nursing Affairs Division, and the regional and prefectural Military Government Teams, worked to provide Japanese women with the same rights enjoyed by women in the United States as well as assisting them in obtaining rights American women had yet to achieve. In addition, this study further explores the incongruities between the idealized picture of life in the United States offered to Japanese women by many of these female Occupation officers and the existing reality of the various institutional and social obstacles impeding American women from achieving equality at home.
Katherine Jellison (Advisor)
416 p.
History, United States
American women; Japanese women; U.S. Occupation of Japan

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  • Gleich-Anthony, J. M. (2007). Democratizing Women: American Women and the U.S Occupation of Japan, 1945-1951 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1195098494

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  • Gleich-Anthony, Jeanne. Democratizing Women: American Women and the U.S Occupation of Japan, 1945-1951. 2007. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1195098494.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gleich-Anthony, Jeanne. "Democratizing Women: American Women and the U.S Occupation of Japan, 1945-1951." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1195098494

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