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Reflections on the Way to the Gallows
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan is a collection of writings, translated into English and edited by Mikiso Hane.
Fukuda hideko autobiography in five short
It was published by the University of California Press/Pantheon Books in 1988. Hane also wrote an introduction.[1]
The title is taken from that of Kanno Sugako's diary, Shide no Michigusa (死出の道艸).[2]
The book discusses thirteen women in the period after the Meiji Revolution, and prior to the end of World War II,[3] who rebelled against the societal status quo and had taken leftist positions.
They include Fukuda Hideko, Kaneko Fumiko, Kanno Sugako, and Yamashiro Tomoe.[1] The authorities prosecuted and imprisoned these women;[4] two of the women were given death sentences, and one such sentence was carried out.[2] Barbara Molony of Santa Clara University stated that these women were, in 1989, not well known to scholars from Western