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

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The Other Women's Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s - a full decade before the "women's lib" movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female writers of avant-garde fiction from this generation: Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes - the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, "odd bodies, " and female homoeroticism - Julia Bullock brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse. The Other Women's Lib affords a cogent and incisive analysis of these texts as feminist philosophy in fictional form. It will be accessible to undergraduate audiences and deeply stimulating to scholars and others interested in gender and culture in postwar Japan, Japanese women writers, or Japanese feminism.

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Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780824833879
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Asian Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Note on Citation Format
  4. Introduction Bad Wives and Worse Mothers? Rewriting Feminity in Postwar Japan
  5. Chapter 1 Party Crashers and Poison Pens: Women Writers in the Age of High Economic Growth
  6. Chapter 2 The Masculine Gaze as Disciplinary Mechanism
  7. Chapter 3 Feminist Misogyny? or How I Learned to Hate My Body
  8. Chapter 4 Odd Bodies
  9. Chapter 5 The Body of the Other Woman
  10. Conclusion Power, Violence, and Language in the Age of High Economic Growth
  11. Notes
  12. Works Cited
  13. Index