This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Noriko Mizuta Lippit received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She has taught English, American, Japanese, and Comparative literature at Dokkyo University, Josai University, and Tokyo Women's University in Japan, and at Marymount College, Scripps College, and the University of Southern California in the United States. She is currently Director of the Center for Inter-Cultural Studies and Education at Josai University. Kyoko Iriye Selden is a graduate of Tokyo University and of Yale University, where she received a Ph.D. in English. She is the co-editor and translator of The Atomic Bomb, Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (M.E. Sharpe, 1989), and translator, with Noriko Mizuta Lippit, of The Short Stories of Tomioka Taeko (forthcoming). She has taught English, Japanese, and comparative literature at Tsuda College (Tokyo) and Washington University (St. Louis). Currently she teaches Japanese language literature at Cornell University.

Book Information
ISBN 9780873328609
Author Noriko Mizuta Lippit
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint M.E. Sharpe
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 540g