Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan

by Alisa Freedman

Book Overview

This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course of the last century.

Here we encounter Japanese women inhabiting the most modern of spaces, in newly created professions, moving upward and outward,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804781133
• ISBN13: 9780804781138
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"