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Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities Department of Asian Studies 401 Alumni Building University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3267 Fax: 919-843-7817
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| Research Interests:
The history and literature of Japanese feminism;
Japanese women's magazines and popular culture; encounters between women in the US and Japan;contemporary Japanese feminist activism; icons of the feminine: royal women, geisha, and pageant winners. Current topics for public lectures |
| Documentary Film
Women in Japan: Memories of the Past, Dreams for the Future. Joanne Hershfield & Jan Bardsley, 2002. |
| Professional
Seminars and Public Events Coordinated:
"The Aesthetics of Nirvana" "Word into Art: A Calligraphy Exhibit" Co-coordinated with Professor Inger Brodey, Curriculum in Comparative Literature, UNC-CH November 2003, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Sexuality, Gender and Nation in Japan" Fall semester 2002, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Feminists Read the Fantastic" March 2002, Association for Teachers of Japanese Meeting, Chicago. "How Do We Look?: Fashion, Film and Beauty Work in East Asia" Triangle East Asia Colloquium, October 21, 2000, Duke University "Desiring Asia: Gender, Identity, and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia" Co-coordinated with Professor Michael Petit, English Department, UNC-CH Fall semester 1999, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Major Publications:
The Bluestockings of Japan: New Women Fiction and Essays from Seito, 1911-1916. Anthology with Introduction and biographical notes, forthcoming from Center for Japanese Studies, Ann Arbor, MI. Bad Girls of Japan. Co-edited with Laura Miller. Palgrave, 2005. Designs on Democracy: Fashion and Feminism in Postwar Japan. Introduction to changes in the status of women in Japan, 1945-1960, and six essays exploring how these changes were interpreted in women's magazines, especially Fujin koron (Ladies review), the leading intellectual magazine for women. Topics include women's magazines in occupied Japan, encounters between American and Japanese women, postwar material culture of home and fashion design, feminist debate, royal weddings, and magazine feature issues on postwar masculinities. (in progress) "Introduction: Women for a New Japan: Sex, Love and Politics in the Early Postwar." As guest editor, US-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement, Number 23, 2002. "Fashioning the People's Princess: Women's Magazines, Shoda Michiko, and the Royal Wedding of 1959." US-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement, Number 23, 2002. "What Women Want: Fujin Koron Tells All in 1956." US-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement, Number 19, 2000. "Discourse on Women in Postwar Japan: The Housewife Debate of 1955." US-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement Number 16, 1999. "Spaces for Feminist Action: National Centers for Women in Japan and South Korea." National Women's Studies Association Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, 1999. "Feminist Resources for Teaching About Japanese and South Korean Women." Education About Asia, vol. 3, no. 3, winter 1998. Guest Editor, "Purchasing Power in Japanese Popular Culture," a special issue on Japan of Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 31, no. 2, 1998. "Japanese Feminism, Nationalism and the Royal Wedding of 1993," Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 31, no. 2, 1998. "Interpreting and Teaching the Films of Kurosawa Akira." With David Phillips. Education About Asia, vol. 2, fall 1998. "Cross-Cultural Feminism: Creating and Recreating Japanese Women in the U.S." The Annual Report of the Center for Women Studies, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, 1993-94. "Feminism's Literary Legacy in Japan: Seito, 1911-1916." The Gest Journal, Princeton University, vol. 5, no. 2, winter 1992. "Redefining Ryosai kenbo (Good Wife, Wise Mother): Thoughts on Motherhood from Seito," The Annals, refereed publication of the Southeast Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, vol. 14, 1992. |