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Women & Writing in the Heian Court

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Japan

Gender and Spirituality

Women's History

The Women's Movement

Modern and Contemporary Women's Writing

Work and Family in Postwar Japan

Gender, Fantasy, and Popular Culture in Contemporary Japan

1. Short story collections

Lippet, Noriko Mizuta and Kyoko Iriye Selden, eds. Japanese women writers: twentieth century short fiction. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1991.

Tanaka, Yukiko, ed. To live and to write: selections by Japanese women writers, 1913-1938. Seattle, Wash.: Seal Press, 1987.

-------. Unmapped territories: new women's fiction from Japan. Seattle, WA: Women in Translation, 1991.

Tanaka, Yukiko and Elizabeth Hanson, eds. This kind of woman: ten stories by Japanese women writers, 1960-1976. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1994.

2. Critical, Theoretical and Reference Works

Copeland, Rebecca L. Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

Cornyetz, Nina. Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.

Mamola, Claire Zebroski. Japanese women writers in English translation: an annotated bibliography. New York : Garland, 1989-1992.

Mulhern, Chieko I. Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-critical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Ruch, Barbara. "Beyond absolution: Enchi Fumiko's The Waiting Years and Masks." Miller, Barbara Stoler, ed. Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective: a guide for teaching. Armonk, N.Y.; London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

Schalow, Paul Gordon and Janet A. Walker, eds. The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996.

Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata. Japanese women novelists in the 20th century: 104 biographies, 1900-1993. Museum Tusculanum Press: University of Copenhagen, 1994.

Vernon, Victoria V. Daughters of the moon: wish, will, and social constraint in fiction by modern Japanese women. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1988.

Wilson, Michiko Niikuni. Gender is fair game: (re)thinking the (fe)male in the works of Oba Minako. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1999.