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Contemporary Portraits of Japanese Women
As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift. Husbands worked longer hours, leaving all the household chores and child rearing to their wives while fulfilling their responsibilites as corporate soldiers. The economy was fueled by a diligent, well-educated, low-paid workforce, but gender role division became even more rigid. Household incomes rose and improvement in areas such as diets, transportation, and leisure were made; modern appliances also made it possible for mothers to have part-time jobs. But pollution also rose, as did prices, and crowded living conditions began to impinge on family life. Tanaka, who has spent many years looking back at her country from an American perspective, examines marriage, motherhood, employment, independence, women's movements, and old age for women in Japan over the last 50 years.
Women Writers of Meiji and Taisho Japan
After centuries of repression of the female voice in literature, the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods in Japanese history saw important changes in both the way women wrote and the way they were read. However, even the most accepted female writers of these two eras were judged by criteria different from those applied to men, and only the most conservative were praised by the (male) critics. This study of the women who wrote in the modern era examines both famous and now-obscure writers within the context of their moments in time and their influence on later generations of Japanese women writers. Arranged chronologically, the book covers the pioneering women of the early Meiji ...
The Woman’s Hand
This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature.
Woman Critiqued
'Women Critiqued' offers English-language readers access to some of the salient critiques that have been directed at women writers, on the one hand, and reactions to these by women writers, on the other.
Sheer Surrender
A Japanese entertainer and intellectual with a social conscious faces the problem of how to protect himself from a younger, very predatory, female of great beauty and greater ego who has decided that she should save him from a lifetime of being gay by making him her exclusive property, a thought which greatly frightens him. The man's greater-than-life grandmother, acting as a "deus ex machina" who matches her grandson up with the one man he could never forget and the young lady with an up and coming professional who loves her intensely, saves the day and forces everyone to accept a happy ending whether they like it or not.
To Live and to Write
"Selections by nine leading women writers are presented, introduced by biographical essays written by the editor. The stories and essays are linked by historical context, but also by theme: the struggle of women to find artisitic and personal freedom"--Back cover.
This Kind of Woman
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Unmapped Territories
Translation of seven stories by contemporary Japanese women.
The Mountain is Moving
In Imperial times in Japan, women were subservient inferiors; in theory they were liberated by the democratic constitution imposed by the US after World War II; but, in real-life Japan, change is glacially slow. Here, that slow-changing reality is juxtaposed with the fast-moving aspirations of Japanese women. The author achieves this through wide-ranging interviews with Japanese women, and by using a range of contemporay Japanese literature.
Becoming Modern Women
Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture is a literary and cultural history of love and female identity in Japan during the 1910s-30s.
