Table of contents : Contents Preface 1. Introduction: Japanese Nationalism and Rural Women 2. Fieldwork 3. Komori 4. Factory Women 5. The Countryside and the City 1: Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Native Ethnology 6. The Countryside and the City 2: Agrarianism among Nagano Middling Farmers 7. The Wartime Period 8. The Postwar "Democracy'' and the Post-postwar Nationalism Epilogue: A Short Critique of the Notion ofidentity Notes References Index About the Author