Introduction
1. The Step to Trample the Unexplored: Family, School Girlishness (Joshi k?k?sei rashisa), and Lesbian Panic in Matsuura Rieko’s Saiai no kodomo (The Most Beloved Child, 2017)
2. Body and/as Food: Rediscovering Female Subjectivity through the Mother-Daughter Dyad in Kawakami Hiromi’s Manazuru (2006)
3. Intersectional Identity in the Works of Tawada Y?ko: An Analysis of “Unhomely” Sounds in the Mother Tongue
4. Writing and Being Written: Approaches to Reading the Narrative of Kanai Mieko’s "Mado" (Window, 1979)
5. Envisioning Community through Women’s Spaces: Body, Precarity, and Language in Kawakami Mieko’s Natsu monogatari (Breasts and Eggs, 2019)
6. Writing a Place for Politics in the Space of Capital: Oyamada Hiroko’s K?j? (The Factory, 2013)