Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation

Evaluates The Myriad Ways In Which Modern Japanese Women Are Reshaping Their Traditional Roles, Profiling Today's Japanese Businesswomen, Fashionistas, And Voluntary Singles Who Have Melded Eastern And Western Modes Of Thought. By The Author Of The Joy Of Doing Things Badly. 1. Kickboxing Geishas -- 2. A Mile In Her Kimono : Japan’s Costume Culture -- 3. Tea And Sympathy : Working Women In Japan -- 4. Bananas : How Travel And Life Abroad Liberates Japanese Women -- 5. Love, Japanese Style -- 6. Blushing Brides And Charismatic Housewives : The More Traditional Route -- 7. Derailing The Mommy Track : Women, Pregnancy, And Politics -- 8. Outside Of Corporate Japan : Women Entrepreneurs -- 9. Men In The Kitchen : How Japanese Male Roles Are Changing -- 10. Revolution At Bullet Train Speed : How Women Are Forging Change And Tradition In Japan. Veronica Chambers.