Good Wife, Wise Mother
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Derived from Western European conceptions of woman's status, Good Wife, Wise Mother (良妻賢母 ryōsai kenbo?) was an ideology coined by Nakamura Masanao in 1875[1] that represented the ideal for womanhood in Japan in the late 1880s and early 1900s. Women were expected to master such domestic skills as sewing and cooking as well as develop the moral and intellectual skills to raise strong, intelligent sons and daughters for the sake of the nation.
[edit] Further reading
- 小山静子、『良妻賢母という規範』、東京：勁草書房、1991.
- 小山静子、『家庭の生成と女性の国民化』、東京：勁草書房、1999.
[edit] Notes
- ^ See Sharon Sievers, Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of a Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan, 1983, 22.
