Dr Mara Patessio, lecturer in Japanese Studies, has recently published two books.
One is her monograph, Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan, which focuses on women's activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. The other is The Female as Subject, edited along with P. F. Kornicki (Cambridge) and G. G. Rowley (Waseda, Tokyo), and which explores the world of literate women in Japan from 1600 to the early twentieth century.