Histories of women in and around Japan, 1868-1945

a good article on the different legal positions of women in Japanese and UK society around the period 1800ish - 1920ish.
Yes, absolutely! You're so right about the swings and roundabouts. I wish there was more scholarly work in general doing, I don't know, comparative women's studies? across countries in similar eras. I wrote a very short Japanese article for a friend's journal a while back which was basically a self-indulgent comparison of Japanese and UK women writers in the 1930s or so (Viscountess Rhondda and Hasegawa Shigure, Vera Brittain and Sata Ineko, Naomi Mitchison and Miyamoto Yuriko etc. etc.); I wish somebody would actually dig into this academically, it would be so interesting.