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FYS183: Geisha, Wise Mothers and Working Women: Images of Japanese Womanhood: Getting Started

Fall 2017, M. Anderson

Books with Good Reading Lists

The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitō, 1911-16
Call Number: Young Reserve PL 782.E1 B57 2007
Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality
Call Number: Annex HQ 1762 .M326 2003
Gender and Japanese History. Volume 1, Religion and Customs/the Body and Sexuality
Call Number: Annex HQ 1762 .J4613 1999 1
Gender and Japanese History. Volume 2, The Self and Expression/Work and Life
Call Number: Annex HQ 1762 .J4613 1999 2
In the Beginning, Woman was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist - Hiratsuka Raicho
Call Number: Annex HQ 1762.5.H56 A3 2006
Japanese "New Woman" : Images of Gender and Modernity
Call Number: Annex HQ 1762 .L68 2007
Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: 5 Japanese Women
Call Number: Annex HQ 1762.5.A3 B57 1999
Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945
Call Number: Annex HQ 1762 .R43 1991

General Background

Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater
Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Call Number: ref BQ 128 .E62 2004
Encyclopedia of Religion
Call Number: ref BL 31 .E46 2005
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

Histories, Context, Reading Lists

Oxford Bibliographies Online
Each entry offers a guided tour through the key literature on a topic. Great starting place!
Cambridge Histories Online
Complete full-text of the Cambridge Histories, including Cambridge History of Japan, Cambridge Modern History, etc.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Search your topic; long review essays are following by lists of key books & articles.

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