Text

The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction

---

The Other Women's Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s - a full decade before the "women's lib" movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female writers of avant-garde fiction from this generation: Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes - the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, "odd bodies," and female homoeroticism - Julia Bullock brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse. The Other Women's Lib affords a cogent and incisive analysis of these texts as feminist philosophy in fictional form. It will be accessible to undergraduate audiences and deeply stimulating to scholars and others interested in gender and culture in postwar Japan, Japanese women writers, or Japanese feminism.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Publisher

: ., 2010

Collation

-

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780824833879

Classification

NONE

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Asian / Japanese

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Julia C. Bullock

Other Information

Cataloger

Kholif Basri

Source

https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/29712382-a4c1-42a0-a19f-2452a4eb4c20

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment