Editor's Introduction                                               1

Alice Kessler-Harris  Gendered Interventions: Exploring the
                      Historical Roots of U.S. Social Policy        3

Ryo Yokoyama          The Formation and Transformation of the
                      American Middle Class: A Summary of the
                      JAAS Conferrence Session                      23

Kohei Kawashima       The Brahmins Encounter the Nouveaux
                      Riches: An Analysis of their Mingling
                      in the Public Lives of the Boston Elite       27

Natsuki Aruga         Continuity during Change in World War II:
                      The Persistence of the Middle Class as
                      Seen in the Social Life at Berkeley
                      High School, California                       43
Hatsue Shinohara      The Rise of a New International Law
                      in America                                    85

Yutaka Sasaki         "But Not Next Door": Housing Discrimination
                      and the Emergence of the "Second Ghetto"
                      in Newark, New Jersey, after World War II    113

Yuka (Moriguchi)
       Tsuchiya       Democratizing the Japanese Family:
                      The Role of the Civile Information
                      and Education Section in the Allied
                      Occupation 1945-1952                         137

                      English-Language Works by JAAS Members
                      1991-1992                                    163