Books | WORKS BY JAPANESE WOMEN Dec 15, 2018
Bluestocking magazine: A call for women's empowerment, still resonant today
by Kris Kosaka
Covering issues such as poverty and unemployment, geisha prostitution, arranged marriages, legalizing abortion and women's suffrage, the controversial Bluestocking magazine engendered the birth of the "new women" (shin-fujin) in Japan, and became a battle cry for wider reform.