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ing Modern Women
ing Modern
Women
l o v e a n d f e m a l e i d e n t i t y
in prewar japanese
literature and culture
Michiko Suzuki
stanford university press
stanford, california
Stanford University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Suzuki, Michiko.
ing modern women : love and female identity in prewar Japanese literature and
culture / Michiko Suzuki.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8047-6197-0 (cloth : alk. paper)--ISBN 978-0-8047-6198-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Japanese fiction--Women authors--History and criticism. 2. Japanese fiction--20th
century--History and criticism. 3. Women in literature. 4. Love in literature. I. Title.
2009
'093522--dc22 2009026081
Typeset by Bruce Lundquist in 11/14 Adobe Garamond
For My Parents
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Names and Terms xi
1. introduction 1
ing Female in Modernity 4
Woman, Selfhood, and Love 6
A Brief History of Love 8
Bluestocking and Hiratsuka Raichō 10
Modern Love Ideology 13
Organization of ing Modern Women 15
part one g i r l s a n d v i r g i n s
2. same-sex love 23
Introduction 23
Sexology Discourse 25
Bluestocking Discourse 29
Girls’ Culture and Yoshiya Nobuko 32
3. yoshiya nobuko
and the romance of sisterhood 34
Introduction 34
Flower Tales: Girls and Adolescent Love 35
Two Virgins in the Attic: Alternative Adulthood 42
ing a Virgin: Rewriting Female Development 50
“Abnormal” Virgins and Pure Wiv