Editing Public speaking (section)

=== Japan ===
[[Toshiko Kishida|Kishida Toshiko]] (1861–1901) was a female speaker during the [[Meiji era]] in [[Japan]]. In October 1883, she publicly delivered a speech entitled 'Hakoiri Musume' (Daughters Kept in Boxes) in front of approximately 600 people.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Marnie |date=2006-12-01 |title=Kishida Toshiko and the Rise of the Female Speaker in Meiji Japan. |url=https://scholarworks.smith.edu/hst_facpubs/3 |journal=U.S.-Japan Women's Journal |issue=31 |pages=36–59}}</ref> Presented in Yotsu no Miya Theater in [[Kyoto]], she criticized the action of parents that shelter their daughters from the outside world. Despite her prompt arrest, Kishida demonstrated the ability of Japanese women to evoke women's issues, experiences, and liberation in public spaces, through the use of public speaking.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sievers |first=Sharon L. |date=1981 |title=Feminist Criticism in Japanese Politics in the 1880s: The Experience of Kishida Toshiko |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173734 |journal=Signs |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=602–616 |doi=10.1086/493837 |jstor=3173734 |s2cid=143844577 |issn=0097-9740}}</ref>