Women in Japanese studies : memoirs from a trailblazing generation /
Alisa Freedman, editor.
Bok Engelsk 2023
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| Opplysninger | Introduction, or blazing trails is always personal / Alisa Freedman -- The implausible origins of becoming an Asian art historian / Ellen P. Conant -- An Asian attachment / Joyce Chapman Lebra, curated by Andrew Violet -- "In search of flowers yet unseen" / Barbara Ruch -- Against the odds, persisting . . . / Marlene J. Mayo -- Becoming a medical anthropologist / Margaret Lock -- Life on two tracks / Takako Lento -- A record of puzzlement / Phyllis I. Lyons -- An accidental pioneer / Susan B. Hanley -- "Another girl studying Japanese!" / Susan Matisoff -- Becoming a historian / Mary Elizabeth Berry -- Serendipity and sociology / Patricia G. Steinhof -- I came, I saw, I stayed / Sumie Jones -- Mae as a professional acholar / Richard Smethurst -- Margins / Amy V. Heinrich -- The presence of the past in life and scholarship / Sonja Arntzen -- Two children . . . And a PhD / Christine M. E. Guth -- Memories of becoming a Japanese studies librarian / Maureen Donovan -- The open gate / Janine Beichman -- Confessions of a biographer / Phyllis Birnbaum -- Backwards and in high heels / Merry White -- Night train to Tokyo / Susan J. Pharr -- From Chushingura to commons / Margaret McKean -- Encounters / Kate Wildman Nakai -- I owe my career to men / Anne Walthall -- Embracing the unexpected and weaving a life / Anne E. Imamura -- My life in translation / Juliet Winters Carpenter -- Still on the way / Eleanor Kerkham -- Growing up, or how I learned to be a Japanese studies librarian / Kristina Kade Troost -- With a lot of help from my friends / Helen Hardacreh -- Being an outsider-insider / Barbara Sato -- Japanese literature as refuge / Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen -- Historical periods and major events in Japanese studies.. - "Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation brings together trailblazing women scholars from diverse disciplines in Japanese Studies to reflect on their careers and offer advice to colleagues. Most books present research and pedagogies. We do something different: We share lives-personal stories of how women scholars earned graduate degrees and began careers bridging Japan and North America between the 1950s and 1980 and balanced professional and personal responsibilities. We challenge the common narrative that Japanese Studies was established by men who worked for the US military after World War II or were from missionary families in Japan. This is only part of the story-the field was also created by women who took advantage of postwar opportunities for studying Japan. Women of this generation were among the first scholars to use Japanese source materials in research published in English and the first foreigners to study at Japanese universities. Their careers benefitted from fellowships, educational developments, activist movements to include the study of women and Asia in university curricula, and measures to prevent gender discrimination. Yet there were instances when, due to their gender, women received smaller salaries, faced hurdles to tenure, and were excluded from, or ignored, at conferences. Our book pioneers a genre of academic memoirs, capturing emotional and intellectual experiences omitted from institutional histories. We offer lively, engaging, thoughtful, brave, empowering stories that start larger conversations about gender and inclusion in the academy and in Japan-American educational exchange"--
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| ISBN | 9781952636387
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