Book Review: Write a review of any one of the books listed below.

In writing your review you must include the following:

a) The main ideas of the author presented in the book.

b) The author's credentials and sources in writing the book.

c) Select one woman presented in the book you have chosen and include a discussion of her: What roles does she fill? What goals does she pursue? Are her ambitions compatible with or at odds with her social position? What strategies does she employ to attain her ends? How successful is she? Does she operate within the parameters of social expectations or struggle against them?

Book choices:

Anchi, Red Azalias.

Bernstein, Gail Lee. Haruko's World. Stanford University Press.

Bernstein, Gail Lee. Recreating Japanese Women.

Bingham, Marjorie, Women in Modern China.

Brinton, Mary, Women and Economic Miracle.

Chang, Jung, Wild Swans, Simon and Schuster.

Chow, Rey, Women and Chinese Modernity.

Condon, Jane, A Half Step Behind.

Croll, Elizabeth. Feminism and Socialism in China. Schocken Books.

Cusack, Dymphna. Chinese Women Speak. Century Hutchinson.

Fox, Mary Virginia, Bette Bao Lord.

Gilmartin, C., G. Hershatter, L. Rofel, T. White., Engendering China, Harvard University Press.

Harvey, Youngsook Kim, Six Korean Women.

Hershatter,Gail, Dangerous Pleasures.

Hibbet, Eloise, Embroidered Gauze.

Honig, Emily, and Gail Hershatter. Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 80's. Stanford University Press.

Honig, Emily, Sisters and Strangers.

Hsu, Vivian Ling. Born of the Same Roots. Midland.

Iwao, Sumiko. The Japanese Woman, Traditional Image and Changing Reality. Free Press.

Judd, Ellen, Gender and Power in Rutral North China.

Kendall, Laurel, and Mark Peterson. Korean Women: View from the Inner Room. East Rock Press.

Kendall, Laurel. Shamans, Housewives and Other Restless Spirits. University of Hawaii Press.

Kim, Seung-kyung, Class Struggle or Family Struggle.

Kim Tongni, Ulhwa, the Shaman. Larchwood Publication.

Kumagai, Fumiko, Unmasking Japan Today.

Lebra, Takie Sugiyama. Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment, University of Hawaii Press.

Mattielli, Sandra. Virtues in Conflict: Tradition and the Korean Woman Today. Royal Asiatic Society of Korea. Sanhwa Pub.

Mori, Kyoko, The Dream of Water.

Neuberger, Anne E., The Girl-son.

Pharr, Susan, Political Women in Japan, University of California Press.

Pruitt, Ida. A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman, Stanford University Press.

Robins-Mowry, Dorothy. The Hidden Sun. Westview Press.

Roberts, Glenda, Staying on the Line: Blue-collar Women in Contemporary Japan.

Saso, Mary, Women in the Japanese Workplace, Hilary Shipman.

Shibamoto, Janet S., Japanese Women's Language.

Sheridan, Mary and Janet Salaff, Lives, Chinese Working Women.

Smith, Robert, and Ella Lury Wiswell. The Women of Suye Mura. University of Chicago Press.

Soh, Chung Hee, The Chosen Women of Korean Politics.

Stacy, Judith, Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China.

Tanaka, Yukiko, Contemporary Portraits of Japanese Women.

Wei, Zhang liang, Status of Women, China.

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