The new Japanese woman : modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan / Barbara Sato.
2003
HQ1762 .S353 2003 (Mapit)
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Title
The new Japanese woman : modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan / Barbara Sato.
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ISBN
0822330083 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822330080 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082233044X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822330448 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822330080 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082233044X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822330448 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
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.
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Asia-Pacific.
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Table of Contents
Women and the reality of the everyday
The emergence of agency : women and consumerism
The modern girl as a representation of consumer culture
Housewives as reading women
Work for life, for marriage, for love
Hard days ahead : women on the move.
The emergence of agency : women and consumerism
The modern girl as a representation of consumer culture
Housewives as reading women
Work for life, for marriage, for love
Hard days ahead : women on the move.