The Other Women’s Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women’s Fiction
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Julia Bullock is an assistant professor of Japanese at Emory University of Georgia. Bullock’s research interests are in the areas of modern Japanese literature, film, popular culture, and gender theory. She has published articles on feminine subjectivity, gender and national identity, female homoeroticism, misogyny, and Japanese feminism. In this impressive publication, analyzing the philosophies of gender in fictional form, Bullock highlights the work of the three most well-known Japanese women writers in the 1960s: Kono Taeko (河野多恵子) (1926), Takahashi Takako (高橋たか子) (1932), and Kurahashi Yumiko
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