Great Single Women in History: Ume Tsuda May 8, 2020
Posted by Onely in Great Onely Activities, Honorary Onely Awards.Tags: Daughters of the Samurai, Janice Nimura, Ume Tsuda
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A woman–an unmarried woman at that–was sitting in judgment of men.
–Janice P. Nimura, describing Ume Tsuda
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I feel annoyed when people make assumptions about me because I’m not married. Onely is full of such stories. Recently, though, when reading Janice P. Nimura‘s gripping book Daughters of the Samurai (WW Norton & Co, 2015), I was reminded that despite today’s pervasive marital status discrimination, in the late 1800s in the US and Japan, singlism was much worse. This is the story of my new historical hero, Ume Tsuda. (more…)
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