The Other Women's Lib : Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction / / Julia C. Bullock.

The Other Women’s Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960's—a full decade before the "women’s lib" movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female fiction writers of this generation (Kono Taeko, Takaha...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawai'i Press,, 2010.
©2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (215 p.)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Bad wives and worse mothers? rewriting femininity in postwar Japan
  • Party crashers and poison pens: women writers in the age of high economic growth
  • The masculine gaze as disciplinary mechanism
  • Feminist misogyny? or how I learned to hate my body
  • Odd bodies
  • The body of the other woman
  • Conclusion: Power, violence, and language in the age of high economic growth.