Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface: The Color Red xv
5. Introduction: When Women Write xix
6. Part 1 Expanding Genre and the Exploration of Gendered Writing
7. Chapter 1 When Women Write History: Nogami Yaeko, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Nagai Michiko 1
8. Chapter 2 Writing Within and Beyond Genre: Ōkura Teruko, Miyano Murako, Togawa Masako, Miyabe Miyuki, and Minato Kanae and Mystery Fiction 18
9. Chapter 3 Feminist “Failed” Reproductive Futures in Speculative Fiction: Ōhara Mariko, Murata Sayaka, and Ueda Sayuri 33
10. Part 2 Owning the Classics
11. Chapter 4 Tales of Ise Grows Up: Higuchi Ichiyō, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Kawakami Mieko 49
12. Chapter 5 Japanese Women Writers and Folktales: “Urashima Tarō” in the Literary Production of Ōba Minako and Kurahashi Yumiko 66
13. Chapter 6 Women and the Non-human Animal: Rewriting the Canine Classic—Tsushima Yūko, Tawada Yōko, Matsuura Rieko, and Sakuraba Kazuki 80
14. Part 3 Sexual Trauma, Survival and the Search for the Good Life
15. Chapter 7 Writing Women and Sexuality: Tamura Toshiko and Sata Ineko 95
16. Chapter 8 Voicing Herstory’s Silence: Three Women Playwrights—Hasegawa Shigure, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Dakemoto Ayumi 113
17. Chapter 9 Writing Women’s Happiness in the 1980s: Labor and Care in Kometani Foumiko, Hayashi Mariko and Yoshimoto Banana 129
18. Chapter 10 Risky Business: Overcoming Traumatic Experiences in the Works of Kakuta Mitsuyo and Kanehara Hitomi 147
19. Part 4 Food, Family, and the Feminist Appetite
20. Chapter 11 Watching the Detectives: Writing as Feminist Praxis in Enchi Fumiko and Kurahashi Yumiko 159
21. Chapter 12 Food as Feminist Critique: Osaki Midori, Kanai Mieko, and Ogawa Yōko 176
22. Part 5 Beyond the Patriarchal Family
23. Chapter 13 “The Mommy Trap”: Childless Women Write Motherhood—Kōno Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Murata Sayaka 193
24. Chapter 14 Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko, Fujino Chiya, and Murata Sayaka 209
25. Part 6 Age is Just a Number
26. Chapter 15 Beyond Shōjo Fantasy: Women Writers Writing Girlhood—Yoshiya Nobuko, Tanabe Seiko, and Hayashi Mariko 225
27. Chapter 16 Writing the Aged Woman: Enchi Fumiko and Tanabe Seiko 242
28. Chapter 17 Humor and Aging: Ogino Anna, Itō Hiromi, and Kanai Mieko 256
29. Part 7 Colonies, War, Aftermath
30. Chapter 18 Women and War: Yosano Akiko and Hayashi Fumiko 273
31. Chapter 19 Women and Colonies: Shanghai and Manchuria in the Autobiographical Writings of Hayashi Kyōko, Sawachi Hisae, and Miyao Tomiko 294
32. Chapter 20 Women and Aftermath: Koza as Topos in Literature from Okinawa—Tōma Hiroko, Yoshida Sueko, and Sakiyama Tami 309
33. Part 8 Environment and Disaster
34. Chapter 21 Writing Human Disaster: Hayashi Kyōko, Ishimure Michiko, and Kawakami Hiromi 325
35. Chapter 22 Teeming Up with Life: Reading the Environment in Ishimure Michiko, Hayashi Fumiko, and Osaki Midori 341
36. Part 9 Crossing Borders: Writing Transnationally
37. Chapter 23 Women and the Ethnic Body: Lee Jungja, Yū Miri, and Che Sil 357
38. Chapter 24 Transnational Narratives and Travel Writing: Yoshimoto Banana, Takahashi Takako, and Yi Yangji 374
39. Index 389