Turning pages : reading and writing women's magazines in interwar Japan / Sarah Frederick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frederick, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's periodicals, Japanese.

Women--Japan--History--20th century.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Turning Pages makes a significant contribution to studies of Japanese print culture and to the growing interest in the cultural landscape of the 1920s and 30s in Japan. The scholarship is superb, the writing flows beautifully, and the images from the magazines are wonderfully evocative." -Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"This important book contributes to our gendered understanding of Japanese modernity. Frederick has insightfully discerned what we need to know in order to situate the rich materials available to researchers in reprint editions of women's magazines. Because so many significant literary works made their initial appearance in women's magazines, Frederick's book allows students and scholars to appreciate as never before the context in which certain works were first read." -Sally A. Hastings, Purdue UniversityBy the early 1920s, "ladies magazines" (fujin zasshi) had become a distinct category in Japanese publishing. Women's periodicals increasingly influenced intellectual discourse, the literary establishment, and daily life. Turning Pages makes sense of this phenomenon through a detailed analysis of major interwar women's magazines, especially the literary journal Ladies' Review, the popular domestic periodical Housewife's Friend, and the politically radical magazine Women's Arts. Through a close examination of their literature, articles, advertising, and art, the book explores the magazines as both windows onto and actors in this vibrant period of Japanese history.Turning Pages considers the central place of representations of women for women in the culture of interwar-era Japan and our understanding of Japanese modernity. Taking a holistic approach to the texts and using tools of historical, literary, and cultural analysis, the author examines the triangular relationship among the consumers, the producers, and the texts themselves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Reading the Production and Consumption of Women's Magazines

2. Serious Reading: Enlightening the Modern Woman in Ladies' Review

3. Writing Home: Modern Life in The Housewife's Friend

4. Women's Arts/Women's Masses: Negotiating Literature and Politics in Women's Arts

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780824865320

0824865324

9781435665989

1435665988

OCLC:

256492993