LEADER 05387oam 22008054a 450 001 9910310644503321 005 20241022101854.0 010 $a9780824870836 010 $a0824870832 010 $a9780824860752 010 $a0824860756 010 $a9781441671479 010 $a1441671471 024 7 $a10.1515/9780824860752 035 $a(OCoLC)1024016630 035 $a(CKB)2560000000048704 035 $a(OCoLC)671812335 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10412272 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000424740 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11294631 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424740 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10474720 035 $a(PQKB)11601347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3413428 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001568899 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4971 035 $a(DE-B1597)484032 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780824860752 035 $a(ScCtBLL)29712382-a4c1-42a0-a19f-2452a4eb4c20 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000048704 100 $a20090810d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Other Women's Lib$eGender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction /$fJulia C. Bullock 210 1$aHonolulu :$cUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010. 215 $a1 online resource (215 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780824882518 311 08$a0824882512 311 08$a9780824833879 311 08$a0824833872 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Bad wives and worse mothers? rewriting femininity in postwar Japan -- Party crashers and poison pens: women writers in the age of high economic growth -- The masculine gaze as disciplinary mechanism -- Feminist misogyny? or how I learned to hate my body -- Odd bodies -- The body of the other woman -- Conclusion: Power, violence, and language in the age of high economic growth. 330 $aThe Other Women?s Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960's?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 writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes?the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, "odd bodies," and female homoeroticism?Julia Bullock brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse. In all of these narrative strategies, the female body is viewed as both the object and instrument of engendering. Severing the discursive connection between bodily sex and gender is thus a primary objective of the narratives and a necessary first step toward a less restrictive vision of female subjectivity in modern Japan. The Other Women?s Lib further demonstrates that this "gender trouble" was historically embedded in the socioeconomic circumstances of the high-growth economy of the 1960's, when prosperity was underwritten by an increasingly conservative gendered division of labor that sought to confine women within feminine roles. Raised during the war to be "good wives and wise mothers" yet young enough to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them by Occupation-era reforms, the authors who fueled the 1960's boom in women?s literary publication staunchly resisted normative constructions of gender, crafting narratives that exposed or subverted hegemonic discourses of femininity that relegated women to the negative pole of a binary opposition to men. Their fictional heroines are unapologetically bad wives and even worse mothers; they are often wanton, excessive, or selfish and brazenly cynical with regard to traditional love, marriage, and motherhood. The Other Women?s Lib affords a cogent and incisive analysis of these texts as feminist philosophy in fictional form, arguing persuasively for the inclusion of such literary feminist discourse in the broader history of Japanese feminist theoretical development. It will be accessible to undergraduate audiences and deeply stimulating to scholars and others interested in gender and culture in postwar Japan, Japanese women writers, or Japanese feminism. 606 $aWomen$zJapan$xIdentity 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aGender identity in literature 606 $aFeminist literary criticism$zJapan 606 $aJapanese fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aJapanese fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aWomen$xIdentity. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aGender identity in literature. 615 0$aFeminist literary criticism 615 0$aJapanese fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aJapanese fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a895.6/35093522 700 $aBullock$b Julia C$0985105 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910310644503321 996 $aThe Other Women's Lib$92251204 997 $aUNINA