The other women's lib
Subtitle: gender and body in Japanese women's fiction
By: Julia C. Bullock.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780824833879; 9780824834531
Subjects: Japanese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Japanese fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Feminist literary criticism -- Japan; Gender identity in literature; Human body in literature; Women -- Identity -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Bad wives and worse mothers? rewriting femininity in postwar Japan; title: Party crashers and poison pens: women writers in the age of high economic growth; title: Masculine gaze as disciplinary mechanism; title: Feminist misogyny or how I learned to hate my body; title: Odd bodies; title: Body of the other woman; title: Conclusion: power, violence, and language in the age of high economic growth.