Gender and Japanese history Volume 2, The self and expression / work and life
Introduction--The subject and expression--Inviting empathy：Kagerō nikki and the immplied reader
Christina Laffin--The confessions of Lady Nijō as a “woman’s tale” and its layering of the many spheres of medieval literature
Abe Yasurō--Medieval literature and women：focusing on Mumyōzōshi
Tanaka Takako--Nyōbō kotoba：a focus point for women’s language and women’s history
Jugaku Akiko--Feeling and sentiment：an Fujitani Mitsue’s poetics of choregraphy
Naoki Sakai--Notes on the “process of creating women” in the Meiji period
Hirota Masaki--The story of the woman, the woman in the story
Hirata Yumi--Modern Japanese literature and the “rivalry between the sexes”：on Tamura Toshiko’s “Ikichi” (Life blood)
Kurosawa Ariko--Work and life：--Ladies-in-Waiting in the Heian period
Yoshikawa Shinji--Female attendants and wives of medieval warrior class
Tabata Yasuko--The chisel of the women divers and the bow of the feudal lords of the sea：the dual structure of labor and village organisation in women’s divers’ society - a case study of the town of Ijika (City of Toba, Mie prefecture)
Anne Bouchy--Jogaku Zasshi (The women’s magazine) and the construction of the ideal wife in the mid-Meiji era
Yoko Iwahori--Work and life at a coal mine：the life history of a woman miner
Iwaya Saori--Fractioned motherhood：gender and the elite status in Japan
Takie S Lebra--The modern family and changing forms of dwellings in Japan：male-centered houses, female-centered houses, and gender-neutral houses
Nishikawa Yūko--The labor market, corporate organizations, corporate culture, and gender in Japan
Yoko Kawashima--Gendering the concept of “labor” / Ueno Chizuko--Conclusion--Contributors Index
Christina Laffin--The confessions of Lady Nijō as a “woman’s tale” and its layering of the many spheres of medieval literature
Abe Yasurō--Medieval literature and women：focusing on Mumyōzōshi
Tanaka Takako--Nyōbō kotoba：a focus point for women’s language and women’s history
Jugaku Akiko--Feeling and sentiment：an Fujitani Mitsue’s poetics of choregraphy
Naoki Sakai--Notes on the “process of creating women” in the Meiji period
Hirota Masaki--The story of the woman, the woman in the story
Hirata Yumi--Modern Japanese literature and the “rivalry between the sexes”：on Tamura Toshiko’s “Ikichi” (Life blood)
Kurosawa Ariko--Work and life：--Ladies-in-Waiting in the Heian period
Yoshikawa Shinji--Female attendants and wives of medieval warrior class
Tabata Yasuko--The chisel of the women divers and the bow of the feudal lords of the sea：the dual structure of labor and village organisation in women’s divers’ society - a case study of the town of Ijika (City of Toba, Mie prefecture)
Anne Bouchy--Jogaku Zasshi (The women’s magazine) and the construction of the ideal wife in the mid-Meiji era
Yoko Iwahori--Work and life at a coal mine：the life history of a woman miner
Iwaya Saori--Fractioned motherhood：gender and the elite status in Japan
Takie S Lebra--The modern family and changing forms of dwellings in Japan：male-centered houses, female-centered houses, and gender-neutral houses
Nishikawa Yūko--The labor market, corporate organizations, corporate culture, and gender in Japan
Yoko Kawashima--Gendering the concept of “labor” / Ueno Chizuko--Conclusion--Contributors Index
