Part 1: Expanding Genre and the Exploration of Gendered Writing
1 When Women Write History: Nogami Yaeko, Ariyoshi Sawako, Nagai Michiko (Susan W. Furukawa)
2 Writing Within and Beyond Genre: .kura Teruko, Miyano Murako, Togawa Masako, Miyabe Miyuki, Minato Kanae and Mystery Fiction (Quillen Arkenstone)
3 Feminist “Failed” Reproductive Futures in Speculative Fiction: .hara Mariko, Murata Sayaka, and Ueda Sayuri (Kazue Harada)
Part 2: Owning the Classics
4 Tales of Ise Grows Up: Higuchi Ichiy., Kurahashi Yumiko, and Kawakami Mieko (Emily Levine)
5 Japanese Women Writers and Folktales: “Urashima Tar.” in the Literary Production of .ba Minako and Kurahashi Yumiko (Luciana Cardi)
6 Women and the Non-human Animal: Rewriting the Canine Classic: Tsushima Y.ko, Ito Hiromi, Tawada Y.ko, Matsuura Reiko, Sakuraba Kazuki (Lucy Fraser)
Part 3: Sexual Trauma, Survival, and the Search for the Good Life
7 Writing Women and Sexuality: Tamura Toshiko and Sata Ineko (Michiko Suzuki)
8 Voicing Herstory’s Silence: Women Playwrights in Japan, Hasegawa Shigure, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Dakemoto Ayumi (Barbara Hartley)
9 Writing Women’s Liberty and Happiness in the 1980s: Kometani Foumiko, Hayashi Mariko and Yoshimoto Banana
(Nozomi Uematsu)
10 Risky Business: Overcoming Traumatic Experiences in the Works of Kakuta Mitsuyo and Kanehara Hitomi
(David Holloway)
Part 4: Food, Family, and Feminist Critique
11 Watching the Detectives: Writing as Feminist Praxis in Enchi Fumiko and Kurahashi Yumiko (Julia C. Bullock)
12Food as a Feminist Critique: Osaki Midori, .ba Kanai Mieko, Ogawa Y.ko (Yoshio Hitomi)
Part 5: Beyond the Patriarchal Family
13 “The Mommy Trap,” Childless Women Write Motherhood: K.no Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Murata Sayaka (Amanda C. Seaman)
14 Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko, Fujino Chiya, and Murata Sayaka (Anna Specchio)
Part 6 : Age is Just a Number
15 Beyond Sh.jo Fantasy: Women Writers Writing Girlhood, Yoshiya Nobuko, Tanabe Seiko, and Hayashi Mariko (Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase)
16 Writing the Aged Woman: Enchi Fumiko and Tanabe Seiko (Sohyun Chu)
17 Parody and Humor: Ogino Anna, It. Hiromi, and Kanai Mieko (Tomoko Aoyama)
Part 7: Colonies, War, Aftermath
18 Women and War: Yosano Akiko and Hayashi Fumiko (Noriko J. Horiguchi)
19 Women and Colonies: Shanghai and Manchuria in the Autobiographical Writings of Hayashi Ky.ko, Sawachi Hisae, and Miyao Tomiko (Lianying Shan)
20 Koza as Topos in Japanese Literature from Okinawa: T.ma Hiroko, Yoshida Sueko, and Sakiyama Tami
(Davinder L. Bhowmik)
Part 8 : Environment and Disaster
21 Writing Human Disaster: Hayashi Ky.ko, Ishimure Michiko, and Kawakami Hiromi (Rachel DiNitto)
22 Teeming Up with Life: Reading the Environment in Ishimure Michiko, Hayashi Fumiko, and Osaki Midori
(John L. Pitt)
Part 9: Crossing Borders: Writing Transnationally
23 Women and the Ethnic Body: Lee Jungja, Y. Miri, and Che Sil (Christina Yi)
24 Transnational Narratives and Travel Writing: Yoshimoto Banana, Takahashi Takako, and Yi Yang-ji
(Pedro Thiago Ramos Basso)