The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts AUTH-4049858 and her passion for books

and her passion for books might not be enough to free her from her chains

And will what Moe uncovers lead him down another blind alley or into the bright light of Redemption Street

occasionally cranky epigrams and vignettes that fill this volume

only a great catastrophe could

an institution that provides an education for disabled women

The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts AUTH-4049858 and her passion for booksIn 1946, at age twenty two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitution; how she almost single handedly ensured that it would establish the rights of Japanese women; and how, as a fluent speaker of Japanese and the only woman in the room, she assisted the American