Table of Contents: Modern girls on the go

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Freedman, Alisa., Miller, Laura, 1953-, Yano, Christine Reiko.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2013.
Subjects:	Women > Employment > Japan > History > 20th century. Women > Employment > Japan > History > 21st century. Social mobility > Japan > History > 20th century. Social mobility > Japan > History > 21st century. Sex role > Japan > History > 20th century. Sex role > Japan > History > 21st century. Japan > Social conditions > 20th century. Japan > Social conditions > 21st century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : modern girls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : cultural meanings of gender, mobility, and labor
Moving up and out : the "shop girl" in interwar Japan / Elise K. Tipton
Elevator girls moving in and out of the box / Laura Miller
Sweat, perfume, and tobacco : the ambivalent labor of the dance hall girl / Vera Mackie
"Flying geisha" : Japanese stewardesses with Pan American World Airways / Christine R. Yano
Bus guides tour national landscapes, pop culture, and youth fantasies / Alisa Freedman
The modern girl as militarist : female soldiers in and beyond Japan's self-defense forces / Sabine Fruhstuck
The promises and possibilities of the pitch : 1990s Ladies League soccer players as fin de siecle modern girls / Elise Edwards
Miss Japan on the global stage : the journey of Ito Kinuko / Jan Bardsley
Traveling to learn, learning to lead : Japanese women as American college students, 1900-1941 / Sally A. Hastings
A personal journey across the Pacific / Yoko McClain.