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DESCRIPTION:What We Can Learn About Tokugawa Households From Their Lists of
  Possessions\n\nSUMMARY\n\nAmy Stanley\, Associate Professor at Northweste
 rn University will present a talk on her latest project\, which explores t
 he social and economic value of clothing in Edo-Japan. \n\n \n\nDESCRIPTIO
 N\n\nAbstract \nIn the late Tokugawa period\, ordinary people began to ama
 ss significant wardrobes of silk crepe and patterned cotton\, and clothing
  became important as both a marker of social status and a medium of exchan
 ge. A "good" robe could be worn around town\, establishing the refinement 
 or respectability of its owner\, but it could also be exchanged for cash a
 t a pawnshop or cut up and refashioned into some other useful item. This t
 alk analyzes the competing meanings and values that members of one househo
 ld attached to a daughter's wardrobe\, which debuted as a trousseau in a s
 now country village\, spent a period in hock in the castle town\, and ende
 d up worn to pieces in Edo. It suggests that investing in fashionable clot
 hing had unintended consequences: it put socially important and economical
 ly valuable resources in the hands of young women\, whose ideas about cons
 umption\, respectability\, and family obligation were not always the same 
 as their elders'.\n\nBiography\n\nAmy Stanley (Ph.D. Harvard\, 2007) speci
 alizes in the history of early modern and modern Japan\, with a particular
  interest in how common people contributed to Japan’s economic\, politic
 al\, and social transformation in the mid-nineteenth century. Her first bo
 ok\, Selling Women: Prostitution\, Markets\, and the Household in Early Mo
 dern Japan (University of California Press\, 2012)\, explained how the gro
 wing business of selling sex reconfigured women's places in the household\
 , the marketplace\, and the Tokugawa state. Professor Stanley has also wri
 tten articles on education for geisha in the 1870's early modern peasants'
  practices of settling adultery cases. Her new project investigates a Japa
 nese woman's experience of urban migration\, service work\, and social mob
 ility in the context of global early modernity. A recipient of the WCAS Aw
 ard for Distinguished Teaching in 2012\, she offers lecture courses on pre
 -20th century Japan and seminars on various aspects of women’s/gender hi
 story\, Asian history\, and archival research.
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LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)
SUMMARY:Worlds In Boxes and On Paper
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