Histories Official, Unofficial, and Popular : Shogunal Favorites in the Genroku Era

ハワイ州マウイ, 2000年11

The Study of Women in Early Modern Japan: An Introduction with Bibliography

Author Institution: University of California, Irvin

The Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan

This essay engages the colonial legacy of postwar Japan by arguing that the political cartoons produced as part of the postwar Japanese labor movement’s critique of U.S. cultural hegemony illustrate how gendered discourses underpinned, and sometimes undermined, the ideologies formally represented by visual artists and the organizations that funded them. A significant component of organized labor’s propaganda rested on a corpus of visual media that depicted women as icons of Japanese national culture. Japan’s most militant labor unions were propagating anti-imperialist discourses that invoked an engendered/endangered nation that accentuated the importance of union roles for men by subordinating, then eliminating, union roles for women

Early Modern Japanese Women through the Lens of Tea, Travel, and Childbirth

What do you do when you want to explore a topic pertaining to the history of early modern Japanese women, but, aside from accounts of a few exceptional individuals, the sources either do not exist or are so fragmentary that they are little more than anecdotal? One solution has been to focus on elite women, the members of the ruling class who were more likely to be literate as well as scrutinized and admonished by men. Even for them, the historical record can remain frustratingly opaque. Getting at the life experiences of commoners has been harder. Dealing with this problem has forced historians to draw inferences based on scanty data, analyze visual representations whose meanings are by no means transparent, and mine records left by men while remaining alert to the danger of overstatement..

Ii aniki warui otōto : sibling rivalry in the Hirata school

Non UBCUnreviewedFacult