The new Japanese woman : modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan / Barbara Sato.
Sato, Barbara Hamill.
2003
HQ1762 .S353 2003 (Mapit)
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Title The new Japanese woman : modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan / Barbara Sato.
Author Sato, Barbara Hamill.
ISBN 0822330083 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822330080 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082233044X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822330448 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
Language English
Description xiv, 241 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Call Number HQ1762 .S353 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.4/0952/0904
Summary Presenting a social history of 'the new woman' that emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, this text shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class & explosion of consumerism from the postwar economic boom of the 1920s.
Note Presenting a social history of 'the new woman' that emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, this text shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class & explosion of consumerism from the postwar economic boom of the 1920s.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index.
Series Asia-Pacific.
Available in Other Form New Japanese woman.
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