U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement最新文献_第10页

On the Enunciative Boundary of Decolonizing Language: The Imagined Camaraderie of Poets Itō Hiromi and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 论非殖民化语言的表达边界:诗人itithiromi和Theresa Hak Kyung Cha想象中的同志情谊

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2014-10-01 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2014.0001

L. Friederich

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The Unprecedented Views of Wada Yoshiko: Reconfiguring Pleasure Work in Yūjo monogatari (1913) 和田芳子的前所未有的观点:重新配置Yūjo一夫一妻制中的快乐工作(1913)

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2014-10-01 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2014.0003

A. Davis

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Women’s Voices, Bodies, and the Nation in 1930s–40s Wartime Literature 20世纪30 - 40年代战时文学中的女性声音、身体和国家

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2014-03-10 DOI: 10.1353/jwj.2013.0014

Michiko Suzuki

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From the Nikutai to the Kokutai: Nationalizing the Maternal Body in Ushijima Haruko’s “Woman” 从日台到国台:船岛晴子《女人》中母体的国家化

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2014-03-10 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2013.0013

K. Kono

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Fat, Disease, and Health: Female Body and Nation in Okamoto Kanoko’s “Nikutai no shinkyoku” 肥胖、疾病与健康:冈本Kanoko《新国》中的女性身体与民族

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2014-03-10 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2013.0016

Michiko Suzuki

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The Properly Feminine Nationalist Body in the Propaganda Kamishibai of Suzuki Noriko 铃木纪子宣传《神石白》中恰当的女性民族主义身体

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2014-03-10 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2013.0017

S. Orbaugh

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Japanese Women’s Poetry from Interwar to Pacific War: Navigating Heterogeneous Borderspace 从两次世界大战到太平洋战争的日本女性诗歌:跨越异质边界空间

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2014-03-10 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2013.0015

Janice Brown

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Gendered Interpretations of Female Rule: The Case of Himiko, Ruler of Yamatai 女性统治的性别解释:以日本御台统治者御美子为例

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2013-09-05 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2013.0009

Akiko Yoshie, H. Tonomura, Azumi Ann Takata

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Opportunities and Constraints for Late Meiji Women: The Cases of Hasegawa Kitako and Hasegawa Shigure 明治晚期女性的机遇与制约——以长谷川北子和长谷川茂为例

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2013-09-05 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2013.0007

M. Patessio

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Women and Political Life in Early Meiji Japan: The Case of the Okayama Joshi Konshinkai (Okayama Women's Friendship Society) 日本明治初期的妇女与政治生活——以冈山近新海惠为例(冈山妇女友好协会)

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2013-09-05 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2013.0011

M. Anderson

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