KRISTINA RUTH HUBER is a Reference and Bibliographic Instruction Librarian and an Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. She has published several articles in Research Strategies and is the compiler of one other book-length bibliography. Her long-standing interest in Japan dates from her experiences as an AFS exchange student and her studies at Earlham College and the International Division of Waseda University.KATHRYN SPARLING is Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. She has published articles in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and elsewhere, and has translated two books from Japanese into English. Her current research is in fiction by contemporary Japanese women.

• Women's Place; A Variety of Perspectives Women in the Private Sphere Women at Home: Marriage, Mothering and Homemaking Health Religion and Spirituality Fashion, Leisure, Sports Women as Consumers Women in the Public Sphere Women Earning a Living Legal Status of Women Status of Women as Reflected in the Spoken Language Education Political and Social Activism Women during War Women as Artists, Performers and Writers Women as Artists and Performers Modern Prose Writers: Fiction, Drama, Essays Modern Poets Premodern Prose Writers: Tales, Diaries, Miscellanies Premodern Poets Other Non-Japanese Women in Japan Reviews and Overviews of Scholarship on Women Chronology of Historical Periods Author, Editor, Translator, Interviewee Index Title Phrase, Series, Proceedings Index Subject Index