U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement最新文献_第7页

A Challenge to Reproductive Futurism: Queer Families and Nonhuman Companionships in Ueda Sayuri's The Ocean Chronicles 对生殖未来主义的挑战:上田小百合《海洋编年史》中的酷儿家庭和非人类友谊

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2018-02-17 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0011

Kazue Harada

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Image-Makers and Victims: The Croissant Syndrome and Yellow Cabs 形象制造者和受害者:牛角面包综合症和黄色出租车

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0004

Akiko Hirota

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Heisei Murasaki: What Women Poets Have Found during Japan's Lost Decades 紫平成:女诗人在日本失去的几十年里发现了什么

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0008

J. Smith

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Shibasaki Tomoka's Literature of Location 柴崎知冈的地理文学

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0007

Kendall Heitzman

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Building a Feminist Scholarly Community: Fifty-One Issues of U.S.–Japan Women's Journal 构建女性主义学术共同体:美日妇女杂志51期

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0001

J. Bardsley

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Nagai Michiko and Ariyoshi Sawako Rewrite the Taikō

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0005

S. Furukawa

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Editor's Note 编者按

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/jwj.2017.0000

A. Freedman

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The Benefits and Lessons of Two Decades with U.S.–Japan Women's Journal 《美日妇女杂志》二十年的好处和教训

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0002

S. Hastings

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Right Here, Right Here 就在这里，就在这里

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0006

Shibasaki Tomoka, Kendall Heitzman

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Maiden Martyr for "New Japan": The 1960 Ampo and the Rhetoric of the Other Michiko “新日本”的少女殉道者:1960年的安波和其他美智子的修辞

U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement Pub Date : 2017-07-12 DOI: 10.1353/JWJ.2017.0003

H. Hirakawa

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