Books by Marnie S. Anderson

In Close Association is the first English-language study of the local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period (1868¿1912). Placing gender analysis at its core, the book offers fresh perspectives on what women did beyond domestic boundaries, while showing men¿s lives, too, were embedded in home and kin.

Anderson argues that shifts in the gender system during the early Meiji period had mixed consequences for Japanese women. Women gained access to the chance to represent themselves and play a limited political role, but were permitted political participation only as an expression of "citizenship through the household."