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Transgressing Gender: Interrogating “Gender” in Japan 2002 UCLA Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies Saturday, May 11, 2002
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
West Coast Room
Covel Commons, UCLA
CA 8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Opening Remarks
9:15 Panel 1: Gender and Legislation
Elizabeth Leicester (UCLA)
Gender and the Politics of Prostitution in Early Nineteenth Century Kanazawa
Michiko Takeuchi (UCLA)
The Reaffirmation of Gendered Roles through Nationalism: The Deconstruction of Japanese State-Sanctioned Prostitution for the U.S. Occupation Forces
Yutaka Tsuchiya (University of Minnesota)
The Colonial Origin of Japanese Women's Education: Kawai Michi and the Establishment of Women's Junior Colleges in Post-WWII Occupied Japan
Professor Anne Walthall, University of California, Irvine
11:30 Lunch Break
12:45 Panel 2: Gender as Performance
Lee Friederich (University of Minnesota)
In the Night Garden: Reading the Unfathomable Sign of the Lesbian in Enchi Fumiko's Onnamen
Galia Todorova Petkova (University of Minnesota)
Performing the Female Body and Sexuality on the Theatre Stage: Onnagata as an Embodiment of "Ultimate" Femininity?
Rinko Shibuya (UCLA)
Sex Exclusive Difference as the Norm: Japanese Women's Language
Professor Michael Bourdaghs, University of California, Los Angeles
3:00 Coffee Break
3:15 Panel 3: Birth Control and Gender
Karen Lee Callahan (UC Berkeley)
Men, Women, and Birth Control in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Shana Fruehan (University of Chicago)
Resisting "Liberation" and Gaining Control: Japanese Feminists and the Pill
Professor Kathleen Uno, Temple University
5:00 Closing Remarks
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Tel: (310) 825-8681
talgoso@hotmail.com, deason@ucla.edu
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/japan
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