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Authored Books

Macnaughtan, Helen (2005) Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle: the Case of the Cotton Textile Industry, 1945-1975. London: Routledge.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Macnaughtan, Helen and Postlethwaite, Verity, eds. (2024) Handbook of Sport and Japan. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Documents, MHM Limited. (Japan Documents Handbooks)

Book Chapters

Macnaughtan, Helen and Merklejn, Iwona (2024) 'The Development and Popularity of Volleyball in Japan: The Impact of the "Witches of the Orient".' In: Macnaughtan, Helen and Postlethwaite, Verity, (eds.), Handbook of Sport and Japan. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Documents, MHM Limited, pp. 65-77. (Japan Documents Handbooks)

Macnaughtan, Helen and Galbraith, Mike (2024) 'A Survey of Rugby in Japan: From Early Play in 1864 to Hosting the World Cup in 2019.' In: Macnaughtan, Helen and Postlethwaite, Verity, (eds.), Handbook of Sport and Japan. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Documents, MHM Limited, pp. 16-30. (Japan Documents Handbooks)

Barrass Chapman, Emily and Macnaughtan, Helen (2023) 'Gendering Postwar Japan.' In: Avenell, Simon, (ed.), Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History: A Handbook. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Documents, pp. 127-145.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2019) 'Gender and the Workplace.' In: Coates, Jennifer, Fraser, Lucy and Pendleton, Mark, (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture. London: Routledge.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2016) 'Jōki no Chikara, Shōhisha no Chikara - Josei, Suihanki, Katei Yōhin no Shōhi.' In: Francks, Penelope and Hunter, Janet, (eds.), Rekishi no Naka no Shōhisha: Nihon ni okeru shōhi to kurashi 1850-2000. Tokyo: Hōsei Daigaku Shuppan-kyoku, pp. 85-113.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2012) 'Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan.' In: Francks, Penelope and Hunter, Janet, (eds.), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79-104.

Hunter, Janet and Macnaughtan, Helen (2010) 'Gender and the Global Textile Industry.' In: van Voss, Lex Heerma, Hiemstra-Kuperus, Els and van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise, (eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

Hunter, Janet and Macnaughtan, Helen (2010) 'National Histories of Textile Workers: Japan.' In: van Voss, Lex Heerma, Hiemstra-Kuperus, Els and van Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise, (eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2006) 'From ‘Post-war’ to ‘Post-Bubble’: Contemporary Issues for Japanese Working Women.' In: Matanle, Peter and Lunsing, Wim, (eds.), Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2005) 'Managing Female Textile Workers: an industry in transition, 1945-1975.' In: Hunter, Janet and Storz, Cornelia, (eds.), Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy: past and present. New York, NY: Routledge.

Journal Article

Macnaughtan, Helen (2020) 'From the Witches of the Orient to the Blossoming Sevens: Volleyball and Rugby at the Tokyo Olympics.' Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 18 (4).

Macnaughtan, Helen (2015) 'Is Abe’s womenomics working?' East Asia Forum.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2015) 'Womenomics for Japan: is the Abe policy for gendered employment viable in an era of precarity?' The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 13 (13). p. 4302.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2015) 'Abe's Womenomics needs to include men too.' East Asia Forum.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2014) 'The Oriental Witches: Women, Volleyball and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.' Sport in History, 34 (1). pp. 134-156.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2013) 'The Life and Legacy of Kasai Masae: the Mother of Japanese Volleyball.' Harvard Asia Quarterly, 15 (No.3/4). pp. 38-46.

Macnaughtan, Helen (2012) 'An interview with Kasai Masae, captain of the Japanese women's volleyball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.' Japan Forum, 24 (4). pp. 491-500.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Macnaughtan, Helen (2020) Japan, the Olympics and the COVID-19 pandemic. East Asia Forum [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Macnaughtan, Helen (2019) 'Can Sporting Mega-Events bring change to Japan?' East Asia Forum.