In Japan, the images of women have undergone rather remarkable transitional changes. In her article "The Modern Girl as Militant", Miriam Silverberg focuses on the category of Modern Girl ("moga," or modan gaaru), a topic of debate in Japanese society during the 1920s and early 1930s. She argues that the Modern Girl was a media creation designed to portray women as promiscuous and apolitical. It was a way of displacing the militancy expressed in their …showed first 75 words of 1171 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1171 total…of the Modern Girl will continue to be an ongoing, dynamic and even problematic process. Bibliography Gordon Andrew, A Modern History of Japan, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.) Keller Evelyn, "Making Gender Visible in the Pursuit of Nature's Secrets,' in Feminist Studies / Critical Studies, ed. Teresa de Lauretis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986) Silverberg Miriam, "The Modern Girl as Militant", in Gail Lee Bernstein ed., Recreating Japanese Women 1600-1945, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991)