Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
Issue 11, August 2005

Media and the Creation of New Japanese Women and Narrating War, Imperialism and the Nation

Guest editor for papers on Josei: Elise Tipton


Introduction. Mediating the Modern: The Magazine Josei in 1920s Japan
Elise Tipton

Josei: A Magazine for the 'New Woman'
Kazumi Ishii

Chiba Kameo: The Making of Modern Japanese Women
Yasuko Claremont

Sex in the City: Chastity vs Free Love in Interwar Japan
Elise Tipton


Narrating War, Imperialism and the Nation

A Forgotten 'Hero': Kawahara Misako and Japan's Informal Imperialism in Mongolia
during the Meiji Period
James Boyd

The Nation is a Woman: The Korean Nation Embodied as an Overseas Adopted Korean Woman
in Chang Kil-su's Susanne Brink's Arirang
Tobias Hübinette

War Through Women's Eyes: Nam Phuong's Red on Gold and Yung Krall's A Thousand Tears Falling
Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen


Book Reviews edited by Anne-Marie Medcalf

Susan L. Burns
Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
reviewed by Sandra Wilson

Chongho Kim
Korean Shamanism: The Cultural Paradox
reviewed by James Boyd

Patricia V. Symonds
Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village
reviewed by Nicholas Farrelly

William Leap and Tom Boellstorff (editors)
Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language
reviewed by Mark McLelland

Elizabeth Mary Holt
Colonizing Filipinas: Nineteenth-Century Representations of the Philippines
in Western Historiography
reviewed by Carolyn Brewer

Books Received

Contributors


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