Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women, education, and literacy / P.F. Kornicki
  • Tale of Genji: required reading for aristocratic women / G.G. Rowley
  • Illustrated classical texts for women in the Edo period / Joshua S. Mostow
  • The woman reader as symbol: changes in images of the woman reader in Ukiyo-e / Itasaka Noriko
  • In the shadow of men: looking for literate women in biography and prosopography / Anna Beerens
  • A father's advice: confucian cultivation for women in the late eighteenth century / Bettina Gramlich-Oka
  • Nishitani Saku and her mother: "writing" in the lives of Edo period women / Yabuta Yutaka
  • The taming of the strange: Arakida Rei reads and writes stories of the supernatural / Atsuko Sakaki
  • Kishida Toshiko and the career of a public-speaking woman in Meiji Japan / Sugano Noriko
  • Readers and writers: Japanese women and magazines in the late nineteenth century / Mara Patessio
  • Women and literacy from Edo to Meiji / Anne Walthall.