Review by Choice Review
Reading this book is like listening to a series of fascinating conversations. Buckley introduces ten Japanese feminists to the English-reading public by letting them speak for themselves. For each woman, she prefaces a passage from their own writings with a short, critical introduction (somewhat deceptively described in the table of contents as a biography) and an interview. The interviews allow Buckley to draw out her subjects on their work (law, writing, business, academics, activism) and on the relationship of various Japanese feminisms to each other and to American and European feminisms. Buckley has made every provision for her readers to understand the conversations they hear and even to enter into them. A glossary and a chronology of significant events in Japanese women's history make the work accessible to those unfamiliar with Japan. Bibliography of selected works for each feminist and a list of feminist organizations in Japan, complete with addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. All levels. S. A. Hastings; Purdue University
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Review by Choice Review
