Re-Imaging Japanese Women

By Anne E. Imamura

Book Overview

Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essays gives a broad, interdisciplinary view of contemporary Japanese women while challenging readers to see the development of Japanese women's lives against the backdrop of domestic and global change.

These essays provide a "second generation" analysis of roles, issues and social change. The collection brings up to date the work begun in Gail Lee Bernstein's Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 (California, 1991), exploring disparities between the current range of images of Japanese women and the reality behind the choices women make.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520202635
• ISBN13: 9780520202634
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"