1. European Literature’s Gender Roles
portrayed in Japanese Literature in
both the Romantic periods

2. Not biological but a socially accepted
norm.
 It decides the way men and women should
behave.


3. •Romanticism was an •Originated in Europe
artistic, literary, and
in the end of the 18th
intellectual movement century (from 1800 to
1850)
•Relevant Novels and Dramas
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Wuthering Heights
Anna Karenina
Doll’s House

4. Meiji Era (1857-1898)
Themes
changes in gender roles
Individualism
modernization of society
Chijin no Ai(The Fool’s Love)
Sasame Yuki (Makiyoka
Sisters)
Nigorie
Maihime(The Dancing Girl)
Nora

5. Find out the effect of European Gender
Roles in Japanese Literature of Romantic
Period
 Identify the acceptance of Westernized
Japanese Gender Roles in Meiji Era
 Examine how the themes of Feminism
and Women’s freedom came into Japan
with Romanticism


6. Wollstonecraft – “If someone writes to
highlight the role of the softer sex, then, it can be
fairly deduced from the present conduct of the
sex…”
Ikuni Kaori - “the new breed of Japanese
women writers seems to be cracking under the
strain of contemporary Japanese society, which
has been slow to acknowledge new gender
roles....”

7. 1.
2.
3.
Gather information from
i. Internet
ii. Books
iii. Lecturers
Analyze data according to the two different
Literatures
Identify how Japanese society responded
to the Westernization

9. Man
Woman
•Dominating
•Individualized
•Acts with a Free-will
•Radical
•Free-thinking
•Craving for Equality
•Breaking social
boundaries

10. Man
Woman
•Dominating
•Protecting the family
•Earning for the family
•Traditionally bound
•Being obedient to the
husband
•Performing the role of the
house –wife
•Limitation of their individual
desires
Japanese woman was considered to
be a ‘children-making machine’

11. •Pioneer
of the Japanese
Romantic Movement
•Influenced
by Gothe ,
Henric Ibsen, Hans
Christian Anderson

12. Maihime
Toyotarō
Alexandrovich Karenin

13. 
Nora
Woman
a traditional 'New
„Japanese Feminism’ and ‘Freedom for
Japanese women „

14. •Influence
of the new
environment of Osaka
•Portrays the negative side
of the Westernization
•Contrasts Asian and
Western standards of
beauty

15. Naomi
Anna Karenina

16. Makioka Sisters
Bennet Sisters

17. •First
Japanese female
novelist
•Recognized
as a feminist

18. ORIKI
CATHERINE

20. Japanese
feminism emerged as a result of
Japanese Romanticism
Japanese society was reluctant to accept
westernized gender roles

The
influence of Western gender roles
changed the minds of Japanese people
gradually