Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations in transcriptions
Notes on Japanese names, the Romanization of Japanese language and translation
of Japanese into English
Introduction
Part 1. Women’s speech as the object of regulation: The premodern period
Chapter 1. The norms of feminine speech
Chapter 2. Normalization of court-women’s speech
Part 2. Gender and national language: Nation-state building in the early modern period
Chapter 3. Construction of a national language for men
Chapter 4. Modernization of the norms of feminine speech
Chapter 5. Creating indexicality: Schoolgirl speech
Chapter 6. Masculinizing the national language
Part 3. Women’s language into national language: The impact of war157
Chapter 7. Women’s language as imperial tradition: Legitimating colonization
Chapter 8. Gendering of the national language under national mobilization
Part 4. Essentializing women’s language: The postwar U.S. Occupation
Chapter 9. Women’s language as reflection of femininity
Chapter 10. A gendered Japanese national language: Symbol of patriarchy
Conclusion: Going beyond the gendered linguistic ideologies
References
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