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Title:

Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiv, 280 pages 23 cm

Subject:

Women--History--Japan--History--20th century.
Women--History--Japan--History--21st century.
Social mobility--Japan--History--20th century.
Social mobility--Japan--History--21st century.
Sex role--Japan--History--20th century.
Sex role--Japan--History--21st century.
Japan--Social conditions--20th century.
Japan--Social conditions--21st century.

Other Authors:

Freedman, Alisa, editor of compilation.
Miller, Laura, 1953- editor of compilation.
Yano, Christine Reiko, editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

You go, girl! Cultural meanings of gender, mobility, and labor / Alisa Freedman, et al -- Pt. 1 New female occupations. 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 dancehall girl / Vera Mackie -- Pt. 2. Models and modes of transportation. "Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World airways / Christine R. Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- Pt. 3. Modern girls overturn gender and class. The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Fruhstuck -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin-de-siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Pt. 4. Modern girls go overseas. 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.

ISBN:

0804781141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804781145 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804781133 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804781138 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)811524050

LCCN:

2012039001

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)