Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

Author: Michiko Suzuki
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
ISBN:0-8047-6198-1 (pbk) 0-8047-6197-0 (hbk)
Price(s): $21.95, $60.00

By taking the works of three important prewar women writers—Yoshiya Nobuko, Miyamoto Yuriko, and Okamoto Kanoko—and placing them in the context of a discourse on 'love ideology,' Michiko Suzuki's book provides important insights into the complex relationship between gender, nation, and modernity in Japan

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