1st Edition
Women and Women's Issues in Post World War II Japan
Volume Introduction; Status Conflict: The Rebellion of the Tea Pourers; The Japanese Woman's Movement: Ichikawa Fusae, a Pioneer in Woman's Suffrage; Women and War in Japan, 1937-1945; Peripheries: Rural Culture in Tokugawa Japan; Japanese Women- Old Images and New Realities; Female Suicides; Gender-Bending in Paradise: Doing "Female" and "Male" in Japan; Company Man Makes Family Happy: Gender Analyses of the Japanese Family; Home Truths: Women and Social Change in Japan; Decent Housewives and Sensual White Women -Representations of Women in Postwar Japanese Magazines; The Death of "Good Wife, Wise Mother"? The Flawed U.N. Report on Comfort Women; The Virtue of Japanese Mothers: Cultural Definitions of Women's Lives; Professional Housewife: The Career of Urban Middle Class Japanese Women; Current Legal Problems Concerning Women Workers in Japan; Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction; Acknowledgments.
Biography
Edward R. Beauchamp, University of Hawaii.
