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inished the first 4 chapters. Short biographies followed by exerpts from memoirs, reflections, essays.
Introduction
People's RIghts and National RIghts - Fukuda Hideko (1865-1927).
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows - Kanno Sugako (1881-1911). (The reason I initially picked up this text)
The Road to Nihilism - Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926)

inished the first 4 chapters. Short biographies followed by excerpts from memoirs, reflections, essays.
Introduction
People's RIghts and National RIghts - Fukuda Hideko (1865-1927). This extract is from her autobiography, Half of my Lifetime.
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows - Kanno Sugako (1881-1911). (The reason I initially picked up this text)
The Road to Nihilism - Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926)

A great text and, so far, great selection of writings by leading women activists of the period. Just completed the section on Fukuda Hideko and an extract if her memoir “Half of My Lifetime”.

“even though I am busy with all sorts of things, nothing ever gets done.” -Kanno Sugako

“The government knows how to punish people well. But I ask them, ‘Have you decided ways to help those who have paid for their crimes? Can you guarantee that, once free, they will not be exposed to the hazards of starvation, and long for the security of prison life?’l -Fukuda Hideko, imprisoned in Japan from 1885 to 1889