The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction 9780824860752

The Other Women’s Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s—a full

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Citation Format
Introduction: Bad Wives and Worse Mothers? Rewriting Femininity in Postwar Japan
1. Party Crashers and Poison Pens: Women Writers in the Age of High Economic Growth
2. The Masculine Gaze as Disciplinary Mechanism
3. Feminist Misogyny? or How I Learned to Hate My Body
4. Odd Bodies
5. The Body of the Other Woman
Conclusion: Power, Violence, and Language in the Age of High Economic Growth
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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