Tsuda Umeko was one of five young Japanese girls sent to the United States in 1871 by their government to be trained in the lore of domesticity. The new Meiji rulers defined a "true woman" as one who had learned to rear children who would be loyal and obedient to the state, and they looked to the "superior culture" of the West as the place to obtain such training. Eleven years later, Tsuda returned to Japan and presented herself as an authority on female education and women's roles. After some frustration and another trip to America to attend Bryn Mawr College, she established one of the...

Rose in the introduction suggests that Reinhardt's ultimate value is as 'a prophet of the realization that high art can only endure as spiritual art.' Well, maybe, but his copious writings are also exuberant, ironic, rancorous and parodistic and, as such, a marvelous commentary of the recent art world.

Problems with your teenager? Here are your solutions! In this book you learn what teenagers need to stay on a positive life path and you find solutions to the most common problems in parent-teen relationships, problems such as: * Lack of communication * Defiance * Lying * Sexual activity * Drug use In this groundbreaking book, Barbara Rose, Ph.D., offers answers she brought through from God to guide parents and caregivers of teens in crucial and potentially lifesaving ways. She includes answers to questions submitted by parents from all walks of life and from all over the world. Follow the...