Kittredge Cherry

Womansword (eBook, ePUB)

What Japanese Words Say About Women

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book sold about 30,000 copies in its first two editions.

The role of women in Japan is much in the news today as a result of declining population and government's efforts to increase women's roles in the workplace; Japanese women are drawing the attention of world media.

The geisha and obedient mother/daughter are still common tropes used to discuss Japanese women. Even 30 years after publication, this book's message is important and valid.

The new introduction from the publisher looks back on how roles of women and their position in society has changed over the years, and makes it clear why this book is needed now.

The author is active in online and in social media, especially the LGBT community, and is always connecting feminist struggle in Japan to the US and elsewhere.

This book is divided into easy communicated and simple topics that lend themselves to quick browsing: sex, motherhood, and growing old.

Provides important historical and cultural background information that make this book a must-buy for anyone hoping to understand situation of women in Japan today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611729191
• Artikelnr.: 47046907

Autorenporträt

Kittredge Cherry studied in Japan on a Rotary International Journalism scholarship at Kobe College and International Christian University in Tokyo. She has written about Japan for such publications as Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. Her popular Cool Words column was a regular feature at the Asahi Weekly from 2006-09. A native of Iowa, Cherry has degrees in journalism and art history from the University of Iowa, and a master of divinity degree from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA.

Kitt's specialties include women's issues, language, culture, and communication.The New York Times Book Review praised her "very graceful, erudite" writing style and her poetry has won several awards. Her books have been translated into Chinese, German, Japanese, and Polish.