HIST 24802: Gender & Japanese History

The Maria Luz incident and international justice -- for Chinese coolies and Japanese prostitutes / Douglas Howland -- Disputing rights: the debate over anti-prostitution legislation in 1950s Japan / Sally A. Hastings -- Gender in the arena of the courts: the prosecution of abortion and infanticide in early Meiji Japan / Susan L. Burns -- Adultery and gender equality in modern Japan: 1868-1948 / Harald Fuess -- Of pity and poison: imprisoning women in modern Japan / Daniel Botsman -- Burning down the house: gender and jury in a Tokyo courtroom, 1928 / Darryl Flaherty -- Sim-pua under the colonial gaze: gender, "old customs," and the law in Taiwan under Japanese imperialism / Chao-ju Chen -- Japanese colonialism, gender, and household registration: legal construction of boundaries / Barbara J. Brooks -- An attempt to integrate the Korean family with the Japanese: a new perspective on the "name-changing policy" in Korea / Motokazu Matsutani.

Introduction / Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno -- 1. Made in Japan : Meiji women's education / Martha Tocco -- 2. Thoughts on the early Meiji gentleman / Donald Roden -- 3. Commodifying and engendering morality : self-cultivation and the construction of the "ideal woman" in 1920s mass women's magazines / Barbara Sato -- 4. "S" is for sister : schoolgirl intimacy and "same-sex love" in early twentieth-century Japan / Gregory M. Pflugfelder -- 5. Seeds and (nest) eggs of empire : sexology manuals/manual sexology / Mark Driscoll -- 6. Engendering eugenics : feminists and marriage restriction legislation in the 1920s / Sumiko Otsubo -- 7. Making "soldiers" : the Imperial Army and the Japanese man in Meiji society and state / Theodore F. Cook, Jr. -- 8. Reading the Japanese colonial archive : gender and bourgeois civility in Korea and Manchuria before 1932 / Barbara J. Brooks -- 9. Women's deaths as weapons of war in Japan's "final battle" / Haruko Taya Cook -- 10. Gendering the labor market : evidence from the interwar textile industry / Janet Hunter -- 11. Sorting coal and pickling cabbage : Korean women in the Japanese mining industry / W. Donald Smith -- 12. Managing the Japanese household : the new life movement in postwar Japan / Andrew Gordon -- 13. The quest for women's rights in turn-of-the-century Japan / Barbara Molony -- 14. Womanhood, war, and empire : transmutations of "good wife, wise mother" before 1931 / Kathleen Uno -- 15. Toward a critique of transhistorical femininity / Ayako Kano -- 16. Feminism and media in the late twentieth century : reading the limits of a politics of transgression / Setsu Shigematsu.

1. Introduction / Janet Hunter -- 2. Redundancy utilized: the economics of female domestic servants in pre-war Japan / Konosuke Odaka -- 3. One day at a time: work and domestic activities of urban lower-class women in early twentieth-century Japan / Kathleen Uno -- 4. Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan / Janet Hunter -- 5. Female labour in the Japanese coal-mining industry / Regine Mathias -- 6. Equality versus difference: the Japanese debate over 'motherhood protection', 1915-50 / Barbara Molony -- 7. Japanese care assistants in hospitals, 1918-88 / Eiko Shinotsuka -- 8. Women as bosses: perceptions of the ama and their work / D. P. Martinez -- 9. Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women: changing company practice / Alice Lam -- 10. The role of the professional housewife / Joy Hendry.

Introduction / Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow -- The Struggle for Legal Rights and Reforms: A Historical View / Sachiko Kaneko -- Women's Image and Place in Japanese Buddhism / Haruko Okano -- Aspects of Sexism in Language / Orie Endo -- Who's Afraid of Amino Kiku? Gender Conflict and the Literary Canon / Chieko M. Ariga -- Three Women Artists of the Meiji Period (1868-1912): Reconsidering Their Significance from a Feminist Perspective / Midori Wakakuwa -- Women and Television: Portrayal of Women in the Mass Media / Midori Fukunishi Suzuki -- Challenges to Education for Girls and Women in Modern Japan: Past and Present / Kimi Hara -- Sexism and Gender Stereotyping in Schools / Atsuko Kameda -- College Women Today: Options and Dilemmas / Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow -- Women's Studies: An Overview / Mioko Fujieda and Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow -- Marriage and Family: Past and Present / Kyoko Yoshizumi -- The Mystique of Motherhood: A Key to Understanding Social Change and Family Problems in Japan / Masami Ohinata -- Care of the Elderly: A Women's Issue / Takako Sodei -- The Changing Portrait of Japanese Men -- Dialogue / Charles Douglas Lummis, Satomi Nakajima, Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda -- Men on the Threshold of Change / Masanori Yamaguchi -- Pornographic Culture and Sexual Violence / Kuniko Funabashi -- Domestic Violence / Aiko Hada -- Female Workers: An Overview of Past and Current Trends / Yoko Kawashima -- Work, Education, and the Family / Kazuko Tanaka -- The Plight of Asian Migrant Women Working in Japan's Sex Industry / Yayori Matsui -- Japan's First Phase of Feminism / Mioko Fujieda -- The New Feminist Movement in Japan, 1970-1990 / Kazuko Tanaka -- Legal Challenges to the Status Quo / Kiyoko Kinjo -- From the Home to the Political Arena / Yoko Sato -- Profiles of Two Assemblywomen -- Aokage Takako: Housewife Turned Political Representative from Seikatsu Club Seikyo / Naoko Sasakura -- Mitsui Mariko: An Avowed Feminist Assemblywoman / Emiko Kaya -- Selected Bibliography of English-Language Works since 1980 -- Appendix: Significant Dates in the Recent History of Women.

1. Chinese, Japanese and global masculine identities / Kam Louie -- Pt. I. "Soft" masculinities -- 2. "Beautiful boys made up as beautiful girls": anti-masculine taste in Qing China / Cuncun Wu -- 3. Mr. Butterfly in Defunct Capital: "soft" masculinity and (mis)engendering China / Yiyan Wang -- 4. Gay men, masculinity and the media in Japan / Mark McLelland -- Pt. II. Martial valour -- 5. The Emperor's sons go to war: competing masculinities in modern Japan / Morris Low -- 6. Sport and the construction of masculinity in the Japanese education system / Richard Light -- 7. Creating corporate warriors: the "salaryman" and masculinity in Japan / Romit Dasgupta -- Pt. III. Tracing lives -- 8. Rethinking male socialisation: life histories of Japanese male youth / Futoshi Taga -- 9. The cooking man in modern Japanese literature / Tomoko Aoyama -- 10. Desire and masculinity at the margins in Gu Cheng's Ying'er / Simon Patton -- Pt. IV. Global masculinities -- 11. Male gender identities among Chinese male migrants / Ray Hibbins -- 12. "Angry yellow men": cultural space for diasporic Chinese masculinities / Tseen Khoo -- Conclusion / Morris Low.