Vicarious language: gender and linguistic modernity in Japan

Abstract

List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Note on Names and the Romanization of Introduction: Women's and Capitalist Modernity in Japan part one: language, gender, and national modernity: the genealogy of japanese women's language, 1880s--1930s 1. An Echo of National Modernity: Overhearing 2. Linguistic Modernity and the Emergence of Women's 3. From Schoolgirl Speech to Women's Language: Consuming Indexicality in Women's Magazines, 1890--1930 part two: the nation's temporality and the death of women's language 4. Capitalist Modernity, the Responsibilized Speaking Body, and the Public Mourning of the Death of Women's part three: re-citing women's language in late modern japan Introduction 5. Just Stay in the Middle: The Story of a Woman Manager 6. Defamiliarizing Women's Language: Strategies and Tactics of Female Office Workers Afterword: This Vicarious Japanese Women's Language Bibliography Index