The other women's lib : gender and body in Japanese women's fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bullock, Julia C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2010]
Subjects:	Japanese fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Women in literature. Japanese fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Feminist literary criticism > Japan. Gender identity in literature. Human body in literature. Women > Identity > Japan.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Bad wives and worse mothers? rewriting femininity in postwar Japan
Party crashers and poison pens: women writers in the age of high economic growth
The masculine gaze as disciplinary mechanism
Feminist misogyny? or how I learned to hate my body
Odd bodies
The body of the other woman
Conclusion: Power, violence, and language in the age of high economic growth.