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Ishii, Noriko Kawamura. "American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909," American Civilization, George Washington University, September 1997.
This dissertation examines the role of American women missionaries at Kobe College, one of the first institutions for women’s higher education in Meiji Japan. Sources include missionaries’ correspondence found in American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission Papers and the life patterns of the Japanese alumnae found in archival records at Kobe College. Identifying professionalization of the missionaries beginning in the early 1880s as an impetus for the college scheme, this study shows that the school provided a rich opportunity for educated, Christian American women to exercise unusual autonomy. Japanese students, however, also gained Western skills useful to a new elite. The school served the interests of women from two divergent cultures.
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