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