Modern girls on the go [electronic resource] : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.
Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2013.Description: xiv, 280 p. : illSubject(s):- Women -- Employment -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Employment -- 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
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- HD6197 .M596 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : modern girls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : cultural meanings of gender, mobility, and labor -- 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 dance hall girl / Vera Mackie -- "Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World Airways / Christine R. Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Fr�uhst�uck -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de si�ecle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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