Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing Book

	A century of reading women's writing in Japan : an introduction	1
Ch. 1	The feminine critique : "womanliness" and the woman writer	21
	On women and translation	28
	Women and poetic thought	31
	On women writers	33
	What is "womanliness"?	40
	Women writers	47
Ch. 2	The essential women writer	53
	Requirements for becoming a woman writer	61
	Is fiction inherently the realm of women?	66
	Confessions of a women's literature convert	72
Ch. 3	The narcissistic woman writer	76
	On narcissism	83
	Contemporary women's literature	87
	Narcissism, cynicism, and the writing of women	95
	Nakedness and decoration in women's writing	100
	Women, narcissim, and Okamoto Kanoko	107
Ch. 4	The resisting woman writer	114
	Female sexuality and the male gaze : a dialogue between Takahashi Takako and Tsuhima Yuko	119
	Women's language and the national language	135
	The subject of women's literature and the transformation of its consciousness	145
Ch. 5	Women writers and alternative critiques	153
	Translation and gender : trans/gender/lation	159
	Yoshimoto banana and girl culture	167
	The consciousness of the girl : freedom and arrogance	185
	For a gentle castration	194
Ch. 6	Women critiquing men : watching the ripples on the pond	206
	On men's literature	210