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Tomoko Makabe's "Picture Brides - Japanese Women in Canada" (1995) - a Review
Review of T. Makabe's oral history addressing Canadian Japanese women.
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Canadian Studies
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This paper reviews T. Makabe's oral history addressing Canadian Japanese women who came to Canada as picture brides of the 1920s. According to the paper, several hundred women came to marry settled Japanese men they had never met. The book is discussed in terms of its shortcomings in a sociologist's attempt at history. The paper concludes by stating that as oral history, Makabe has failed to ask questions or interact with her informants as Individuals.
From the Paper:
"Tomoko Makabe came to Canada under very different circumstances from the five Canadian Japanese women whose testimony she collected. The author's educational background centered on Sociology and she later published a volume on the Sansei or third-generation Canadian Japanese. The phenomena that Picture Brides describes will not strike a Canadian-born reader as very novel however much it fascinated Makabe in the early 1990s towards her publication of 1995. Various women have arrived in Canada since the 16^th century to marry men they did not know and as continues in some communities, in the present."Cite this Book Review:
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Tomoko Makabe's "Picture Brides - Japanese Women in Canada" (1995) - a Review (2007, December 01)
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"Tomoko Makabe's "Picture Brides - Japanese Women in Canada" (1995) - a Review" 01 December 2007.
Web. 05 June. 2023. <https://www.academon.com/book-review/tomoko-makabe-picture-brides-japanese-women-in-canada-1995-a-review-132107/>