Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and index
An echo of national modernity: overhearing "schoolgirl speech" -- Linguistic modernity and the emergence of women's language -- From schoolgirl speech to women's language: consuming indexicality in the Women's magazines, 1890-1930 -- Capitalist modernity, the responsibilized speaking body, and the public mourning of the death of women's language -- "Just stay in the middle": the story of a woman manager -- Defamiliarizing Japanese women's language: strategies and tactics of female office workers.