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Tag Archives: gender
Resource: Gender Statistics Database
Today we briefly introduce a resource for those interested in gender studies in modern Japan: the Gender Statistics Database. This source is almost entirely presented in a bilingual format. As stated on the site: The Gender Statistics Database by National … Continue reading
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Tagged agencies, gender, gender statistics, Japan, modern Japan, sex, statistics
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Book Announcement: Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
Via University of Washington Press. Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater MAKI ISAKA paperback not available $50.00 HARDCOVER (9780295995106) PUBLISHED: January 2016 SUBJECT LISTING: Asian Studies / Japan; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Performing Arts BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 272 … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, kabuki, kabuki theater, onnagata, theater, theatre
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Call For Papers: Constructing Masculinities in Asia
The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce the call for papers for “Constructing Masculinities in Asia” a conference to be held at the University of San Francisco on Thursday, November 3 and Friday, November 4, 2016. … Continue reading
Workshop: ‘Leftover’ and ‘Stale’ Women: A Graduate Student Workshop on Gender Inequality in Contemporary China and Japan
The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies invites graduate students to participate in its Tuesday, October 6, 2015 workshop, “‘Leftover’ and ‘Stale’ Women: A Graduate Student Workshop on Gender Inequality in Contemporary China and Japan.” In East Asia, and … Continue reading
Call for Papers: U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal
The purpose of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal is to exchange scholarship on women and gender between the U.S., Japan, and other countries; to enlarge the base of information available in Japan on the status of American women as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, gender, Japan, journal, research, US, US-Japan Women's Journal, women
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Call for Papers: Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures, 2015 “Gaming/Gender”
Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures, 2015 “Gaming/Gender” September 25-27, 2015 Minneapolis College of Art and Design Minneapolis, Minnesota Special Guest: Brianna Wu The recent rash of death threats toward feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian after her polemic on the violence toward … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Seminar – Women, Gender, and Efforts for Equality: Comparative Asian-Western Perspectives
Women, Gender, and Efforts for Equality: Comparative Asian-Western Perspectives Women, Gender, and Efforts for Equality: Comparative Asian-Western Perspectives (Alternative unofficial title: Women on the Warpath) In April 2014 Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch and other pathbreaking books, spoke at the … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, call for papers, College Women's Association, comparative, equality, gender, West, women
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Book Announcement: Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan
Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan edited by Andrea Germer, Vera Mackie and Ulrike Wöhr, Routledge, 2014 Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation–states in … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, gender, Japan, modern Japan, nation, politics, state
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LGBT Exhibition: Rainbow Messages from the Hirado Dutch Trading Post [Nagasaki]
September 14, 2014 – October 31, 2014 Opening times: 8:30-17:30 Place: Hirado Dutch Trading Post (Okubo 2477, Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture) Entry fee: 300 yen At the Hirado Dutch Trading Post, Japan’s first western style building, exchanges between Japan and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dutch-Japanese relations, exhibition, gender, gender studies, LGBT, Nagasaki, Netherlands, sexual minorities
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Book Announcement: The Princess Nun
Harvard East Asian Monographs 366 The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan Gina Cogan The Princess Nun tells the story of Bunchi (1619–1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshōji. Bunchi advocated strict adherence … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, books, Buddhism, early modern, gender, imperial family, nuns, princess, Tokugawa period
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 