Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction
1. Women, Education, and Literacy
2. The Tale of Genji: Required Reading for Aristocratic Women
3. Illustrated Classical Texts for Women in the Edo Period
4. The Woman Reader as Symbol: Changes in Images of the Woman Reader in Ukiyo-e
5. In the Shadow of Men: Looking for Literate Women in Biography and Prosopography
6. A Father’s Advice: Confucian Cultivation for Women in the Late Eighteenth Century
7. Nishitani Saku and Her Mother: “Writing” in the Lives of Edo Period Women
8. The Taming of the Strange: Arakida Rei Reads and Writes Stories of the Supernatural
9. Kishida Toshiko and the Career of a Public-Speaking Woman in Meiji Japan
10. Readers and Writers: Japanese Women and Magazines in the Late Nineteenth Century
11. Women and Literacy from Edo to Meiji
Bibliography
Contributors
Index