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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.

Books | WORKS BY JAPANESE WOMEN May 12, 2018

Where would we be without the words of Japanese women?

by Kris Kosaka

Often overlooked, female writers in Japan, such as Ichiyo Higuchi and Raicho Hiratsuka, have a staying power that surpasses their male contemporaries. To help amplify these female voices, over the next few months we'll be highlighting some of the lesser read in translation ...