Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture Tapa blanda - 2009

Stanford Univ Pr, 2009. Paperback. New. 233 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture is a literary and cultural history of love and female identity in Japan during the 1910s-30s.

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United States: Stanford University Press. 2009. 233pp, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early-mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love and female identity, "Becoming Modern Women" focuses on same-sex love, love marriage, and maternal love - new terms at that time; in doing so, it shows how the idea of 'woman,' within the context of a vibrant print culture, was constructed through the modern experience of love. Author Michiko Suzuki's work complements current scholarship on female identities such as 'Modern Girl' and 'New Woman,' and interprets women's fiction in conjunction with nonfiction from a range of media - early feminist writing, sexology books, newspapers, bestselling love treatises, native ethnology, and historiography. While illuminating the ways in which women used and… Leer más

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Stanford University Press, 2009-11-10. Paperback. Used: Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.