Fictions of femininity: literary inventions of gender in Japanese court women's memoirs

Abstract

Abbreviations 1. The staging of feminine self-disclosure 2. The staging of feminine self-disclosure 2. The engendering of the heroine in the Kagero nikki 3. Fictions of desire in the Sarashina nikki 4. The desire for fiction in the Sarashina nikki 5. The problem of others in the Sanuki no suke nikki 6. The poetics of voyeruism in The Pillow Book Notes Index.