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.