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Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women
Phyllis Birnbaum
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Description for Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women
Paperback. Stunning biographical portraits explore the lives of five women--two actresses, two writers, and a painter--who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was considered proper in Japanese society. Their lives stretch across a century and a half of explosive cultural and political transformations in Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BG; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 317.
The stunning biographical portraits in Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo, some adapted from essays that first appeared in The New Yorker, explore the lives of five women who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was considered proper in Japanese society. Their lives stretch across a century and a half of explosive cultural and political transformations in Japan. These five artists-two actresses, two writers, and a painter-were noted for their talents, their beauty, and their love affairs rather than for any association with politics. But through the fearlessness of their art and their ... Read more
The stunning biographical portraits in Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo, some adapted from essays that first appeared in The New Yorker, explore the lives of five women who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was considered proper in Japanese society. Their lives stretch across a century and a half of explosive cultural and political transformations in Japan. These five artists-two actresses, two writers, and a painter-were noted for their talents, their beauty, and their love affairs rather than for any association with politics. But through the fearlessness of their art and their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231113571
SKU
V9780231113571
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About Phyllis Birnbaum
PHYLLIS BIRNBAUM is the author of the novel An Eastern Tradition. She is also the translator of Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.: Stories by Japanese Women and Uno Chiyo's novel Confessions of Love, for which she won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and other publications.
Reviews for Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women
A book that sets out to disturb the cliched image of Japanese womanhood as largely passive and decorative and succeeds brilliantly.
Colin Donald Daily Yomiuri Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo offered me a new frame of reference, expressing a new, or rather a very old, kind of feminism-not mythic crusade but grace under fire.
Karen ... Read more
Colin Donald Daily Yomiuri Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo offered me a new frame of reference, expressing a new, or rather a very old, kind of feminism-not mythic crusade but grace under fire.
Karen ... Read more