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Book Announcement: Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives

Posted on August 24, 2014 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. Editors: Mark J. Hudson, Ann-Elise Lewallen, Mark K. Watson 272pp. January 2014 Cloth – Price: $52.00ISBN: 978-0-8248-3697-9 In 2008, 140 years after it had annexed Ainu lands, the Japanese government shocked observers by finally recognizing … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Paula

http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90319-8 Contents 1 Introduction: Gender Matters (Angelika Koch and Brigitte Steger) 2 Manga Girls: Sex, Love, Comedy and Crime in Recent Boys $B (B Anime and Manga (Hattie Jones) 3 Absent … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: publication projects on the subject of manga for girls/women

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Paula

In attempting to analyze the discursive aspects of shôjo or josei bunka (cultures created by and for girls/women) in contemporary Japan, we initially should reconfirm that shôjo manga have generally been regarded as a central force in the “discovery ” … Continue reading →

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Conference: Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese Feminisms

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Paula

April 19-20, 2013 Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA The Japanese program of the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC), Emory University, invites you to attend a two-day conference on Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu

Posted on March 24, 2013 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8944-9780824835651.aspx Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu Author: Laffin, Christina; Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women explores the world of thirteenth-century Japan through the life of a prolific … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Asian History in Gender and Sexuality, Assistant Professor

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Paula

Institution: University of Saskatchewan, History Location: Saskatchewan, Canada Position: Assistant Professor, Asian History in Gender and Sexualities The Department of History in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan invites applications for a tenure-track … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girl’s Culture in Japan

Posted on July 8, 2012 by LM

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8616-9780824836382.aspx Deborah Shamoon University of Hawai’i Press March 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3638-2; 978-0-8248-3542-2 Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese Feminisms

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Paula

April 19-20, 2013 Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA The Japanese program of the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC), Emory University, invites paper proposals for a two-day conference on Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese … Continue reading →

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Internship Opportunity: Editorial Interns for Summer 2012 at The Mary Sue

Posted on March 27, 2012 by LM

Employer: The Mary Sue, Abrams Media Location: Manhattan, NY Deadline: April 5, 2012 Type: Unpaid Dates: June – Aug. 2012 (flexible start/end dates) The Mary Sue is a website for geeky women produced by the Abrams Media collective. Interns must … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Special Themed Issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics – Boys Love

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Paula

Deadline for submission of abstracts is October 14, 2011. Email editors@yaoiresearch.com with queries. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Special Issue on Boys’ Love Manga Guest Editors: Mark McHarry, Independent Scholar Kazumi Nagaike, Oita University, Japan Dru Pagliassotti, California Lutheran … Continue reading →

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