Jan Bardsley, Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of "The Bluestockings of Japan: New Women Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911 1916." Laura Miller, Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is the author of "Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics." Bardsley and Miller coedited "Bad Girls of Japan. "