Modern girls on the go [electronic resource] : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.

Contributor(s): Freedman, Alisa | Miller, Laura, 1953- | Yano, Christine Reiko | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2013Description: xiv, 280 p. : illISBN: 9780804785549 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Women -- Employment -- Japan -- History -- 20th century | Women -- Employment -- Japan -- History -- 21st century | Social mobility -- Japan -- History -- 20th century | Social mobility -- Japan -- History -- 21st century | Sex role -- Japan -- History -- 20th century | Sex role -- Japan -- History -- 21st century | Japan -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Japan -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.40952 LOC classification: HD6197 | .M596 2013Online resources: Click to View
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 Fruhstuck -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siecle 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Fruhstuck -- The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siecle 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.

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