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Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Japan

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1. General

Allison, Anne. Nightwork: sexuality, pleasure, and corporate masculinity in a Tokyo hostess club. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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.

Imamura, Anne E., ed. Re-Imaging Japanese Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Imamura, Anne E. Video Letter from Japan II: A Young Family. Ask Asia. October 16, 2000.
<http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000128.htm>

Ochiai, Emiko. Happy Families? Look Japan. 16 October 2000. <http://www.lookjapan.com/past-issues/96_dec/sample-dec.html>

Smith, Robert J. "Gender Inequality in Contemporary Japan." Journal of Japanese Studies 13.1 (Winter 1987): 1-25.


Ueno, Chizuko. "The Genesis of the Urban Housewife." Japan Quarterly 34.2 (1987) 130-142.

-------. "Women and the Family in Transition in Postindustrial Japan." Women of Japan and Korea: continuity and change. Gelb, Joyce, and Marian Lief Palley, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. 23-42.

Uno, Kathleen S. "The Death of 'Good Wife, Wise Mother'?" Postwar Japan as History. Gordon, Andrew, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.


2. Reproductive issues

Buckley, Sandra. "Altered States: The Body Politics of 'Being-Woman.'" Postwar Japan as history. Gordon, Andrew, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.


-------. "Body politics: abortion law reform." The Japanese trajectory: modernization and beyond. Edited by Gavan McCormack & Sugimoto Yoshio. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 1988.

Coleman, Samuel. Family Planning in Japanese Society: Traditional Birth Control in a Modern Urban Culture. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983.

Jolivet, Muriel. Japan: The Childless Society? London and New York: Routledge, 1997.

LaFleur, William R. Liquid life: abortion and Buddhism in Japan. William R. LaFleur. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Ogino, Miho. "Abortion and Women's Reproductive Rights: The State of Japanese Women, 1945-1991." Women of Japan and Korea: continuity and change. Gelb, Joyce, and Marian Lief Palley, eds. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1994. 69-94.