reading and writing women's magazines in interwar Japan
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Frederick, Sarah
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbladen, literatuur, politiek, kunsten, Japan, interbellum
- Description
- By the early 1920s ladies magazines had become a distinct category in Japanese publishing. This book makes a detailed analysis of several interwar women’s magazines, including 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 Japan and our understanding of Japanese modernity. Whether a magazine focused on 'the modern girl,' 'the factory girl,' 'the woman writer,' or 'the housewife,' the transformation of women’s lives depicted in its pages was central to Japan’s representation of its own modernity in the 1920s. .Women’s magazines in modern Japanese literature were significant not only for the opportunities they afforded women writers but also for their often underestimated institutional and financial support of the literary community as a whole.