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Zusatztext "In Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan , editors Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano have compiled an important collection on women and work in the 20th and 21st centuries Japan . . . As a result of the interdisciplinary structure of this collection, the assembled essays offer useful contributions to a variety of fields and are accessible to academic and general readers alike. The editors organized the volume into four sections . . . this organization of chapters serves to guide the reader through distinct sociohistorical periods while masterfully weaving together the connections between 'gender', 'mobility', and 'labor' throughout Japan's period of modernization . . . It is difficult to pinpoint any shortcomings in the volume; rather, it only left this reader wanting more . . . In reading Freedman, Miller, and Yano's outstanding collection, one hopes that these two debates will cease to be seen as oppositional pathways for Japanese women, and that—following in their 'modern girl' predecessors' footsteps—they will take the lead in moving Japan into a more prosperous and egalitarian era." Informationen zum Autor Alisa Freedman is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Film at the University of Oregon. Laura Miller is the Ei'ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Christine R. Yano is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Klappentext This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators-who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Zusammenfassung This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators-who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity....
