Introduction / Julia C. Bullock, Ayako Kano, and James Welker -- Part I. Rethinking activism and activists. Women's rights as proletarian rights : Yamakawa Kikue, suffrage, and the "dawn of liberation" / Elyssa Faison -- From "motherhood in the interest of the state" to motherhood in the interest of mothers : rethinking the First Mothers' Congress / Hillary Maxson -- From women's liberation to lesbian feminism in Japan : rezubian feminizumu within and beyond the ūman ribu movement in the 1970s and 1980s / James Welker -- The mainstreaming of feminism and the politics of backlash in twenty-first-century Japan / Tomomi Yamaguchi -- Part II. Rethinking education and employment. Coeducation in the age of "good wife, wise mother" : Koizumi Ikuko's quest for "equality of opportunity" / Julia C. Bullock -- Flower empowerment : rethinking Japan's traditional arts as women's labor / Nancy Stalker -- Liberating work in the tourist industry / Chris McMorran -- Part III. Rethinking literature and the arts. Seeing double : the feminism of ambiguity in the art of Takabatake Kashō / Leslie Winston -- Feminist acts of reading : Ariyoshi Sawako, Sono Ayako, and the lived experience of women in Japan / Barbara Hartley -- Dangerous women and dangerous stories : gendered narration in Kirino Natsuo's Grotesque and Real world / Kathryn Hemmann -- Part IV. Rethinking boundaries. Yamakawa Kikue and Edward Carpenter : translation, affiliation, and queer internationalism / Sarah Frederick -- Rethinking Japanese feminism and the lessons of ūman ribu : toward a praxis of critical transnational feminism / Setsu Shigematsu -- Toward postcolonial feminist subjectivity : Korean women's redress movement for "comfort women" / Akwi Seo -- Takemura Kazuko : on friendship and the queering of American and Japanese studies / J. Keith Vincent -- Conclusion : on rethinking Japanese feminisms / Ayako Kano.
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