Jan Bardsley's "Maiko Masquerade"

Jan Bardsley is Professor Emerita of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan and the award-winning The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911–1916. Bardsley applied the “Page 99 Test” to her latest book, Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan, and reported the following