The Other Women's Lib : Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction /

Bullock, Julia C.

The Other Women's Lib : Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction / Julia C. Bullock. - 1 online resource (ix, 200 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Open Access

9780824833879 0824860756 9780824882518




Women--Identity.--Japan
Human body in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Feminist literary criticism--Japan.
Japanese fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Japanese fiction--History and criticism.--20th century


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