Free Download Julia C. Bullock, "The Other Women’s Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women’s Fiction"
English | 2010 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 0824833872 | PDF | 1,1 mb
The Other Women’s Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s―a full decade before the "women’s lib" movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female fiction writers of this generation (Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko) for their avant-garde literary challenges to dominant models of femininity. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes―the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, "odd bodies," and female homoeroticism―Julia Bullock brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse.