Mara Patessio is Lecturer in Japanese History at the University of Manchester. In addition to publishing a number of articles in scholarly journals, she has edited (with P. F. Kornicki and G. G. Rowley) The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan (Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2010).
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