Description |
1 online resource. |
Note |
Description based on print version record. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : modern girls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : cultural meanings of gender, mobility, and labor -- Moving up and out : the "shop girl" in interwar Japan / Elise K. Tipton -- Elevator girls moving in and out of the box / Laura Miller -- Sweat, perfume, and tobacco : the ambivalent labor of the dance hall girl / Vera Mackie -- "Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World Airways / Christine R. Yano -- Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman -- The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Frühstück -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siècle modern girls / Elise Edwards -- Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley -- Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. Hastings -- A personal journey across the Pacific / Yoko McClain. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
Note |
Description based on print version record. |
Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Employment -- Japan -- History -- 21st century.
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Social mobility -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Social mobility -- Japan -- History -- 21st century.
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Sex role -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Sex role -- Japan -- History -- 21st century.
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Added Author |
Freedman, Alisa, editor of compilation.
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Miller, Laura, 1953- editor of compilation.
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Yano, Christine Reiko, editor of compilation.
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Ebooks Corporation
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Related To |
Original 9780804781138 0804781133 9780804781145 0804781141 (DLC) 2012039001 |
ISBN |
0804785546 (electronic bk.) |
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9780804785549 (electronic bk.) |
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9780804781138 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0804781133 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780804781145 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0804781141 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
OCLC # |
EBC1155231 |
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