Sato / Chow / Harootunian The New Japanese Woman

Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8476-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

A study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sato, Barbara

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Prologue: Women and the Reality of the Everyday 1

1. The Emergence of Agency: Women and Consumerism 13

2. The Modern Girl as a Representation of Consumer Culture 45

3. Housewives as Reading Women 78

4. Work for Life, for Marriage, for Love 114

5. Hard Days Ahead: Women on the Move 152

Notes 165

Bibliography 213

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Sato is Professor of History at Seikei University in Tokyo. She is coeditor of Gender and Modernity: Rereading Japanese Women's Magazines.