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

by Julia C. Bullock

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 fiction writers of this generation (Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko) for their avant-garde literary challenges to dominant models of femininity. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834534
• ISBN13: 9780824834531
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"