Description: This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity.
Review Quotes: "[A] serious contribution to intercultural studies and gender sensitivities--scholarly, well written, and often moving. . . . Highly recommended."--R. B. Lyman Jr., Choice