Beschreibung:
Alisa Freedman is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Film at the University of Oregon.Laura Miller is the Ei'ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.Christine R. Yano is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators-who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity.