Chizuko Ueno is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's "best-known feminist".
Her research field includes feminist theory, family sociology, and women's history. She is best known for her contribution to gender studies in Japan. As a public intellectual, she played a central role in creating the field of gender studies in Japanese academia. At the same time, her radical tendency and strong character has invited criticism (she described herself as "critical, assertive, and disobedient").
Ueno is a trenchant critic of postwar revisionism and criticizes the whitewashing of Japanese history, which she claims attempts to justify its colonialism, wartime atrocities, and racism both before and after World War II. In particular, she has defended the compensation of Korean comfort women who were forced into prostitution by the Empire of Japan.
It is a essay and a sort of guide book of how single women should deal with their later lives. Interestingly, this "single" includes not only unmarried women, but also widows and divorced as the author claims women will be alone in the end because men statistically died earlier than women.
Usefulness of her suggestions depend on how the readers struggle with their loneliness. In my case, her idea reduced my anxiety derived from uncertainty.