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Record Nr.

UNISA996247872003316

Autore

Sato Barbara Hamill

Titolo

The new Japanese woman : modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan / / Barbara Sato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2003

ISBN

9786612920752

0-8223-8476-0

1-282-92075-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Asia-Pacific

Disciplina

305.4/0952/0904

Soggetti

Women - Japan - History - 20th century

Sex role - Japan - History - 20th century

Feminism - Japan - History - 20th century

Social change - Japan - History - 20th century

Japan Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Women and the reality of the everyday -- The emergence of agency : women and consumerism -- The modern girl as a representation of consumer culture -- Housewives as reading women -- Work for life, for marriage, for love -- Hard days ahead : women on the move.

Sommario/riassunto

A study of the "modern" woman in Japan before World War II.