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Barbara N. Ramusack surveys the prescriptive roles and lived experiences of women from the period of the early states to the 1990s.

About the Author

Barbara N. Ramusack is Professor of History and Department Head at the University of
Cincinnati, where she is a founding member of the Center for Women's
Studies. She has published The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empire
and several articles on British feminists and Indian women.

Sharon Sievers is professor of modern Japanese history and department
chair at California State University, Long Beach, where she has also
served as director of the Women's Studies Program. Sievers is best known
for her prize-winning book on turn-of-the century women in Japan, entitled
Flowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan.