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Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan
- Title
- Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013].
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- Description
- xiv, 280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Alternative Title
- Gender, mobility, and labor in Japan
- Subjects
- Women > Employment > Japan > History > 20th century
- Japan > Social conditions > 20th century
- Sex role > Japan > History > 20th century
- Social mobility > Japan > History > 21st century
- Women > Employment > Japan > History > 21st century
- Sex role > Japan > History > 21st century
- Japan > Social conditions > 21st century
- Social mobility > Japan > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-251) and index.
- Contents
- You go, girl! : 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 dancehall 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 Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle 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.
- Call Number
- JBE 13-1296
- ISBN
- 9780804781138 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804781133 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804781145 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804781141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012039001
- 40022156657
- OCLC
- 811524050
- Title
- Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013].
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-251) and index.
- Added Author
- Freedman, Alisa, editor.Miller, Laura, 1953- editor.Yano, Christine Reiko, editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022156657
- Research Call Number
- JBE 13-1296