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Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Japan

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Gender, Fantasy, and Popular Culture in Contemporary Japan

Buckley, Sandra, ed. Broken Silences: Voices of Japanese Feminism. Berekely: University of California Press, 1997.

Buckley, Sandra. "A Short History of the Feminist Movement in Japan." Women of Japan and Korea: continuity and change. Gelb, Joyce, and Marian Lief Palley, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. 150-188.

Bunch, Charlotte, ed. Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement: Ampo Japan-Asia Quarterly Review. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

"Feminism Reaches Japan". The Economist (US), 339.7968 (June 1, 1996).

Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko and Atsuko Kameda, eds. Japanese women: new feminist perspectives on the past, present, and future. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995.

Leuers, Timothy. "Bibliography on Japanese Women." Hosted by Kurume University. October 15, 2000. http://www.mii.kurume-u.ac.jp/~leuers/bib-japanesewomen.htm


Mackie, Vera C. Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour, and Activism, 1900-1937. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.


Sievers, Sharon L. Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1983.

Tsurumi, E. Patricia."Visions of Women and the New Society in Conflict: Yamakawa Kikue versus Takamure Itsue." Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy 1900-1930. Minichiello, Sharon A. Minichiello, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. 335-357.

Ueno, Chizuko. "The Japanese Women's Movement: Coutervalues to Industrialism." The Japanese Trajectory: Modernization and Beyond. Ed. Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 1988. 167-185.