Manners and mischief : gender, power, and etiquette in Japan / edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-268) and index.

Genji guides, or minding Murasaki / Linda H. Chance -- Box-lunch etiquette : conduct guides and Kabuki onnagata / Maki Isaka -- The perfect woman : Geisha, etiquette, and the world of Japanese traditional arts / Kelly M. Foreman -- Mortification, mockery, and dissembling : Western adventures in Japanese etiquette / Gavin James Campbell -- A dinner party is not a revolution : space, gender, and hierarchy in Meiji Japan / Sally A. Hastings -- The oyaji gets a makeover : guides for Japanese salarymen in the new millennium / Jan Bardsley -- The dignified woman who loves to be "lovable" / Hiroko Hirakawa -- Making and marketing mothers : guides to pregnancy in modern Japan / Amanda C. Seaman -- When manners are not enough : the newspaper advice column and the "etiquette" of cultural ideology in contemporary Japan / Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith -- A community of manners : advice columns in lesbian and gay magazines in Japan / Hideko Abe -- Behavior that offends : comics and other images of incivility / Laura Miller.