Turning Pages
Subtitle: Reading And Writing Women's Magazines in Interwar Japan
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: July 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780824829971
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Media studies; Social history; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; General; Biography / Autobiography; Literary Criticism; Personal Memoirs; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; History; Asia - Japan; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Asian - Japanese; Women's periodicals, Japanese; 20th century; Japan; Women
Description: "Turning Pages makes sense of Japanese "ladies' magazines" through a detailed analysis of several interwar magazines, including the literary journal Ladies' Review, the popular domestic periodical Housewife's Friend, and the politically radical magazine Women's Arts. Through a close examination of their literature, articles, advertising, and art, the book explores the magazines as both windows onto and actors in this period of Japanese history. Women's magazines in modern Japanese literature were significant not only for the opportunities they afforded women writers but also for their often underestimated institutional and financial support of the literary community as a whole. This book will be of interest to students of Japanese literature, women's studies, and modern history."--BOOK JACKET.