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Gendered Japan: Law, Empire, and Modern Girls on the Go - Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium. Edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. ix, 301 pp. ISBN: 9780824837150 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan. Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiv, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780804781138 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body. By Noriko J. Horiguchi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xxv, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780816669776 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

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Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium. Edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. ix, 301 pp. ISBN: 9780824837150 (cloth, also available as e-book).
Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan. Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiv, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780804781138 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body. By Noriko J. Horiguchi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xxv, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780816669776 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , May 2018 , pp. 526 - 535
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