Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 280 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : modern girls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : cultural meanings of gender, mobility, and labor
- Moving up and out : the "shop girl" in interwar Japan / Elise K. Tipton
- Elevator girls moving in and out of the box / Laura Miller
- Sweat, perfume, and tobacco : the ambivalent labor of the dance hall girl / Vera Mackie
- "Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World Airways / Christine R. Yano
- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman
- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Fruhstuck
- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siecle modern girls / Elise Edwards
- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley
- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. Hastings
- A personal journey across the Pacific / Yoko McClain.