Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. Women and the Family: 1600-1868
6. ONE. Women and Changes in the Household Division of Labor 17
7. TWO. The Life Cycle of Farm Women in Tokugawa Japan 42
8. THREE. The Deaths of Old Women: Folklore and Differential Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Japan 71
9. FOUR. The Shingaku Woman: Straight from the Heart 88
10. FIVE. Female Bunjin: The Life of Poet-Painter Ema Saiko ō 108
11. SIX. Women in an All-Male Industry: The Case of Sake Brewer Tatsu'uma Kiyo 131
12. PART TWO. The Modern Discourse on Family, Gender, and Work: 1868-1945 149
13. SEVEN. The Meiji State's Policy Toward Women, 1890-1910 151
14. EIGHT. Yosano Akiko and the Taishō Debate over the "New Woman' 175
15. NINE. Middle-Class Working Women During the Interwar Years 199
16. TEN. Activism Among Women in the Taisho Cotton Textile Industry 217
17. ELEVEN. The Modern Girl as Militant 239
18. TWELVE. Doubling Expectations: Motherhood and Women's Factory Work Under State Management in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s 267
19. THIRTEEN. Women and War: The Japanese Film Image 296
20. Afterword 315
21. Glossary of Japanese Names and Terms 323
22. Index 329