04489nam 2200745 a 450 991081709480332120240313182833.00-8047-8554-610.1515/9780804785549(CKB)2670000000340163(EBL)1155231(OCoLC)831116713(SSID)ssj0000835760(PQKBManifestationID)12331554(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835760(PQKBWorkID)10997202(PQKB)10992629(MiAaPQ)EBC1155231(DE-B1597)564219(DE-B1597)9780804785549(Au-PeEL)EBL1155231(CaPaEBR)ebr10676843(OCoLC)1178769426(EXLCZ)99267000000034016320120924d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrModern girls on the go gender, mobility, and labor in Japan /edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20131 online resource (297 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-8113-3 0-8047-8114-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : modern girls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : cultural meanings of gender, mobility, and labor -- Moving up and out : the "shop girl" in interwar Japan / Elise K. Tipton -- Elevator girls moving in and out of the box / Laura Miller -- Sweat, perfume, and tobacco : the ambivalent labor of the dance hall girl / Vera Mackie -- "Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World Airways / Christine R. Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley -- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. Hastings -- A personal journey across the Pacific / Yoko McClain.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, claiming the public life as their own: shop girls, elevator girls, dance hall dancers, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, international beauty queens, overseas teachers, corporate soccer players, and even female members of the Self-Defense Forces. Directly linking gender, mobility, and labor in 20th and 21st century Japan, this collection brings to life the ways in which these modern girls—historically and contemporaneously—have influenced social roles, patterns of daily life, and Japan's global image. It is an ideal guidebook for students, scholars, and general readers alike.WomenEmploymentJapanHistory20th centuryWomenEmploymentJapanHistory21st centurySocial mobilityJapanHistory20th centurySocial mobilityJapanHistory21st centurySex roleJapanHistory20th centurySex roleJapanHistory21st centuryJapanSocial conditions20th centuryJapanSocial conditions21st centuryWomenEmploymentHistoryWomenEmploymentHistorySocial mobilityHistorySocial mobilityHistorySex roleHistorySex roleHistory331.40952Freedman Alisa1619219Miller Laura1953-1619220Yano Christine Reiko690278MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817094803321Modern girls on the go3951346UNINA