Part 1: Expanding Genre and the Exploration of Gendered Writing 1. When Women Write History: Nogami Yaeko, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Nagai Michiko (Susan W. Furukawa) 2. Writing Within and Beyond Genre: Okura Teruko, Miyano Murako, Togawa Masako, Miyabe Miyuki, and Minato Kanae and Mystery Fiction (Quillon Arkenstone) 3. Feminist "Failed" Reproductive Futures in Speculative Fiction: Ohara Mariko, Murata Sayaka, and Ueda Sayuri (Kazue Harada) Part 2: Owning the Classics 4. Tales of Ise Grows Up: Higuchi Ichiyo, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Kawakami Mieko (Emily Levine) 5. Japanese Women Writers and Folktales: Urashima Taro in the Literary Production of Oba Minako and Kurahashi Yumiko (Luciana Cardi) 6. Women and the Non-human Animal: Rewriting the Canine Classic-Tsushima Yuko, Ito Hiromi, Tawada Yoko, Matsuura Rieko, and Sakuraba Kazuki (Lucy Fraser) Part 3: Sexual Trauma, Survival, and the Search for the Good Life 7. Writing Women and Sexuality: Tamura Toshiko and Sata Ineko (Michiko Suzuki) 8. Voicing Herstory's Silence: Three Women Playwrights-Hasegawa Shigure, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Dakemoto Ayumi (Barbara Hartley) 9. Writing Women's Happiness in the 1980s: Labor and Care in Kometani Foumiko, Hayashi Mariko and Yoshimoto Banana (Nozomi Uematsu) 10. Risky Business: Overcoming Traumatic Experiences in the Works of Kakuta Mitsuyo and Kanehara Hitomi (David S. Holloway) Part 4: Food, Family, and the Feminist Appetite 11. Watching the Detectives: Writing as Feminist Praxis in Enchi Fumiko and Kurahashi Yumiko (Julia C. Bullock) 12. Food as Feminist Critique: Osaki Midori, Kanai Mieko, Ogawa Yoko (Hitomi Yoshio) Part 5: Beyond the Patriarchal Family 13. "The Mommy Trap,": Childless Women Write Motherhood-Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Murata Sayaka (Amanda C. Seaman) 14. Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko, Fujino Chiya, and Murata Sayaka (Anna Specchio); Part 6: Age is Just a Number 15. Beyond Shojo Fantasy: Women Writers Writing Girlhood-Yoshiya Nobuko, Tanabe Seiko, and Hayashi Mariko (Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase) 16. Writing the Aged Woman: Enchi Fumiko and Tanabe Seiko (Sohyun Chun) 17. Humor and Aging: Ogino Anna, Ito Hiromi, and Kanai Mieko (Tomoko Aoyama) Part 7: Colonies, War, Aftermath 18. Women and War: Yosano Akiko and Hayashi Fumiko (Noriko J. Horiguchi) . 19. Women and Colonies: Shanghai and Manchuria in the Autobiographical Writings of Hayashi Kyoko, Sawachi Hisae, and Miyao Tomiko (Lianying Shan) 20. Women and Aftermath: Koza as Topos in Literature from Okinawa-Toma Hiroko, Yoshida Sueko, and Sakiyama Tami (Davinder L. Bhowmik) Part 8: Environment and Disaster 21. Writing Human Disaster: Hayashi Kyoko, Ishimure Michiko, and Kawakami Hiromi (Rachel DiNitto) 22. Teeming Up with Life: Reading the Environment in Ishimure Michiko, Hayashi Fumiko, and Osaki Midori (Jon L. Pitt) Part 9: Crossing Borders: Writing Transnationally 23. Women and the Ethnic Body: Lee Jungja, Yu Miri, and Che Sil (Christina Yi) 24. Transnational Narratives and Travel Writing: Yoshimoto Banana, Takahashi Takako, and Yi Yangji (Pedro Thiago Ramos Basso)