Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. ABBREVIATIONS xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Of Love and Bondage in the Kagerò Diary Michitsuna’s Mother and Her Father 25
7. Chapter 2. Self-Representation and the Patriarchy in the Heian Female Memoirs 49
8. Chapter 3. Towazugatari Unruly Tales from a Dutiful Daughter 89
9. Chapter 4. Mother Tongue and Father Script The Relationship of Sei Shònagon and Murasaki Shikibu to Their Fathers and Chinese Letters 115
10. Chapter 5. De-siring the Center Hayashi Fumiko’s Hungry Heroines and the Male Literary Canon 143
11. Chapter 6. A Room Sweet as Honey Father-Daughter Love in Mori Mari 167
12. Chapter 7. Enchi Fumiko Female Sexuality and the Absent Father 194
13. Chapter 8. Needles, Knives, and Pens Uno Chiyo and the Remembered Father 215
14. Chapter 9. A Confucian Utopia Kòda Aya and Kòda Rohan 238
15. Chapter 10. Òba Minako and the Paternity of Maternalism 265
16. Chapter 11. Kurahashi Yumiko’s Negotiations with the Fathers 292
17. Chapter 12. Ogino Anna’s Gargantuan Play in Tales of Peaches 327
18. CONTRIBUTORS 369
19. INDEX 373