By Alisa Freedman,Laura Miller,Christine R. Yano

This lively and fascinating multidisciplinary quantity pins its concentrate on the lived reports and cultural depictions of women's mobility and exertions in Japan. The subject matter of "modern women" keeps to supply a charming window into the adjustments that women's roles have gone through through the process the final century.
Here we stumble upon jap ladies inhabiting the main smooth of areas, in newly created professions, relocating upward and outward, claiming the general public lifestyles as their very own: store ladies, elevator women, dance corridor dancers, travel bus courses, airline stewardesses, overseas good looks queens, in another country lecturers, company football avid gamers, or even lady contributors of the Self-Defense Forces. at once linking gender, mobility, and hard work in twentieth and twenty first century Japan, this assortment brings to existence the ways that those smooth girls—historically and contemporaneously—have motivated social roles, styles of everyday life, and Japan's international photograph. it's a great guidebook for college kids, students, and common readers alike.

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