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Women & Writing in the Heian Court

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Japan

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Bargen, Doris G. A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possesion in the Tale of Genji. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Bowring, Richard. Murasaki Shikibu, The tale of Genji. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Cavanaugh, Carole. "Text and Textile: Unweaving the Female Subject in Heian Writing." Positions 4.3.

Field, Norma. The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.

McCullough,William H. "Japanese Marriage Institutions in the Heian Period." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 27 (1967): 103-165.

Ôba, Minako. "Without Beginning, Without End." The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing. Schalow, Paul Gordon Schalow and Janet A. Walker, eds. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. 19-40.

Okada, H. Richard. Figures of Resistance: language, poetry, and narrating in The tale of Genji and other mid-Heian texts. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.

Ruch, Barbara. "A Book of One's Own: The Gossamer Years, The Pillow Book, and The Confessions of Lady Nijo." Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching. Miller, Barbara Stoller, ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

Sarra, Edith. Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.

Wakita, Haruko."Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan From the Perspective of Women's History." Journal of Japanese Studies 10.1 (Winter 1984): 73-99.