Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.
2013
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Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2013]
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©2013
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xiv, 280 pages : illustrations
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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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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9780804781138 cloth alkaline paper
9780804781145 paperback alkaline paper
9780804785549 e-book
9780804781145 paperback alkaline paper
9780804785549 e-book
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