| Changing
Attitudes towards Gender Roles in Japan: 2002 Snapshot |
Commentary on the 2002 Cabinet Office 's gender
equality survey by J. Sean Curtin (Sept. 2002) |
| Child
Research Net |
"non-profit organization devoted to thinking
with & about young people in Japan" |
| Competing
Narratives of Romance and Rape: A 'Marital Damages' Trial in Japan |
Catherine Burns's paper in Intersections (Issue
7, March 2002) |
| DAPPI |
(in Japanese) A forum for Japanese working
women |
| Dawn |
English-language annual newsletters of the Dawn
Center or Osaka Prefectural Women's Center, with many essays on Japanese
women's issues |
| Dawn
Center |
(in Japanese & English) Osaka Prefectural
Women's Center, "dedicated to the promotion of independence
and equal opportunity for men and women": activities; publications;
laws & policies related to women; women's centers; statistical
data, etc. |
| eWomen |
(in Japanese) Information on work, family & entertainment
for working Japanese women |
| Exploring
the Gender Gap: Women Speak Out about Working and Raising Children
in Contemporary Japan |
Essay by Susan D. Holloway, Yoko Yamamoto & Sawako
Suzuki, UC Berkeley (Child Research Net, 2005) |
| Feminist
History in Japan: National and International Perspectives |
Andrea Germer's paper in Intersections:
Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context (Issue 9,
Aug. 2003) |
| Gender
Equality Bureau, Cabinet Office: Gender Information Site |
(in Japanese & English) News; policies;
documents, white papers, & studies |
| 'I'm
Your Venus'/'You're a Rake': Gender and the Grand Narrative in
Japanese Television Advertising |
Todd Joseph Miles Holden's paper in Intersections (Issue
3, Jan. 2000) |
| Japan
Past & Present: A Multidisciplinary Special Issue |
Issue 7 of Intersections: Gender, History & Culture
in the Asian Context (Mar. 2002) |
| Japan's
Feminist Fabulation: Reading Marginal with unisex reproduction
as a keyconcept |
Akiko Ebihara's paper on genres favored by female
authors in Japan such as science fiction & manga (Genders
OnLine Journal 36, 2002) |
| Making
a Space for Women Intellectuals in Postwar Japan |
Vanessa B Ward's study of "the few women
[intellectuals]who were prominent [in the 1950s] and the contexts
in which they operated (Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference
of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in Canberra, 2004;
PDF format) |
| Onna.com |
(in Japanese) a Japanese women's lifestyle & shopping
site |
| Ore
wa ore dakara ['Because I'm me']: A Study of Gender and Language
in the Documentary Shinjuku Boys |
Claire Maree's paper in Intersections: Gender,
History and Culture in the Asian Context (Issue 9, Aug. 2003) |
| Research
by Tanaka Sigeto on Changes in the Sexual Division of Labor, Social
Stratification, & Social Research Methodology |
Published & conference papers by Tohoku
University Professor, list of gender & lifecourse researchers
in Japan, etc. |
| Resistance
to Difference: Sexual Equality and its Law-ful and Out-law (Anarchist)
Advocates in Imperial Japan |
Hélène Bowen Raddeker's paper
on 3 radical feminists in Intersections (Issue 7, March
2002) |
| The
Situation of Women in Japan |
From Japan
Institute of Workers' Evolution: Women in general; working
women; changing characteristic of Japan's female workforce; situation
of working women (2001) |
| Tolerance,
Form and Female Dis-ease: The Pathologisation of Lesbian Sexuality
in Japanese Society |
Sharon Chalmers's paper in Intersections (Aug.
2001) |
| Unstable
Mothers: Redefining Motherhood in Contemporary Japan |
Megan McKinlay's essay in Intersections (Issue
7, March 2002) |
| Violence
Against Women in War & Conflict Situations Network, Japan (VAWW-NET-Japan) |
(in Japanese & English) NGO striving "Toward
a 21st Century Without War & Violence Against Women" |
| Waiting
Women: The Return of Stragglers and Japanese Constructions of Womanhood
in Collective Memories of World War II, 1972-1974 |
Beatrice Trefalt's paper in Intersections (Issue
5, May, 2001) |
| What
Japanese Girls Read |
Akiko Uchiyama on "what the Japanese girl
readers read, saw or captured in the translation" of Akage no
an (Anne of Green Gables) (Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference
of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in Canberra, 2004;
PDF format) |
| Women
in Japan Today 2003 |
From the Gender Equality Bureau, the Cabinet
Office |
| Women's
Centers in Japan |
A list of links to national & regional women's
centers, & government offices & university institutes related
to gender issues |
| Women & an
Aging Society: Utilizing the Power & Experience of the Elderly
in Society |
Dawn Center Newsletter (Dec. 2003) in PDF format,
with essays on gender issues related to Japan's aging society due
to rising life expectancy & declining birth rate |
| Womenjapan.com |
(in Japanese) A site promoting women's professional
careers & entrepreneurship |
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