Table of Contents

Hiding in the light; from Oshin to Yoshimoto Banana, Lise Skov and Brian Moeran; interpreting Oshin-war, history and women in modern Japan, Paul A.S. Harvey; reading Japanese in Kalei Gaho - the art of being a housewife, Brian Moeran; antiphonal performances - Japanese women's magazines and women's voices, Nancy Rosenberger; consuming bodies - constructing and representing the female body in contemporary Japanese media, John R. Clammer; cuties in Japan, Sharon Kinsella; environmentalism seen through Japanese women's magazines, Lise Skov; the marketing of adolescence in Japan - buying and dreaming, Merry White; Yoshimoto Banana's "Kitchen" and Japanese consumerism, John W. Treat.