Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol.4 (1996) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: Women’s Studies in Asia and the Pacific Women’s Studies in China: Li Xiao-Jiang and Her Women’s Studies Movement AKIYAMA Yoko Nationalism in Korean Women’s Studies: Addressing the Nationalist Discourses Surrounding the ‘Comfort Women’ YAMASHITA Yeong-ae Recent Trends in Korean Feminist Studies on Mass Media CHONG Ho-son’ The National Machineries for the Advancement of Women in Asia and the Pacific-current Situation and Future Perspectives HASHIMOTO Hiroko Articles: Correspondence Columns of Japanese Girl’s Magazines, 1902-1913 SAKUMA-SATO Rika History of Mother’s Rights: A Study of Patriarchy in Early Modern Japan HIROI Tazuko Beyond Our Invisibility: Japanese Women and the Quest for Self-Defined Identity HOTTA Midori Mizuko Belief: An In