Table of Contents

Introduction, Gail Lee Bernstein Women and Changes in the Household Division of Labor, Kathleen S. Uno The Life Cycle of Farm Women in Tokugawa Japan, Anne Walthall The Deaths of Old Women: Folklore and Differential Mortality in 19th-Century Japan, Laurel Cornell The Shingaku Woman: Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Robertson Female Bunjin: The Life of Poet-Painter Ema Saiko, Patricia Fister Women in an All-Male Industry: The Case of Sake Brewer Tatsu'uma Kiyo, Joyce Chapman Lebra The Meiji State's Policy Toward Women, 1890-1910, Sharon H. Nolte & Sally Ann Hastings Yosano Akiko and the Taisho Debate Over the "New Woman", Laurel Rasplica Rodd Middle-Class Working Women During the Inter-war Years, Margit Nagy Activism Among Women in the Taisho Cotton Textile Industry, Barbara Molony The Modern Girl as Militant, Miriam Silverberg Doubling Expectations: Motherhood and Women's Factory Work Under State Management in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s, Yoshiko Miyake Women and War: The Japanese Film Image, William Hauser Afterword, Jane Caplan

About the Author

Gail Lee Bernstein is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her Community (1983) and co-editor of Japan and the World, Essays on Japanese History and Politics (1988).