Transnational Women's Activism JUVENILE FICTION / Interactive Adventures Situating the phenomenon in an

Situating the phenomenon in an historical context

offering advice for how people can help protect them

as Kaufmann evokes them

que rebuscan entre la basura para encontrar algo de valor…

and peers into the box of pencils Vega had on her table

Transnational Women's Activism JUVENILE FICTION / Interactive Adventures Situating the phenomenon in anFollowing landmark trade agreements between Japan and the United States in the 1850s, Tokyo began importing a unique American commodity: Western social activism. As Japan sought to secure its future as a commercial power and American women pursued avenues of political expression, Protestant church women and, later, members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) traveled to the Asian coast to promote Christian teachings and women's social