U.S.-Japan Women's Journal

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U.S.-Japan Women's Journal: English Supplement (in English)(ISSN 1059-9770)


No. 12 (February 1997)
 Special Issue: Gender and Imperialism, edited by Brett de Bary
	Japanese Theater and Imperialism: Romance and Resistance (Ayako Kano)
	Japan's Entry into War and the Support of Women (Nishikawa Yuko)
	Mapping Post-Colonial Feminist Locations: The Art of Tomiyama Taeko and Shimada Yoshiko (Rebecca Jennison)
	The Shape of Freedom: The Female Body  in Post-Surrender Japanese Cinema (Joanne Izbicki)
	The Law of the Same and Other (Non)-Perversions: Woman's Body  as a Use-Me-Rape-Me "Signifier " (Setsu Shigematsu)

No. 11(October 1996)
	- Needles, Knives, and Pens:Uno Chiyo and the Remembered Father(Rebecca L. Copeland)
	- Recovering the Feminine: Kishino Junko's Onna no Chihei kara miete-kita mono(Ronald P. Loftus)
	- Reform of Japanese Divorce Law: An Assessment(Yoshioka Mutsuko)
	- Women in Agricultural Labor in Japan: Current Conditions and Issues(Nakamura Hirotsugu)
	- The Stars of Democracy: The First Thirty-nine Female Members of the Japanese Diet(Ogai Tokuko)

No. 10(June 1996)
	- Collapse of メJapanese Mothersモ(Ueno Chizuko)
	- Madwoman and Healer: Images of Woman in the Fiction of Shimao Toshio(Philip Gabriel)
	- The Transformation of the Urashima Legend: 
		The Influence of Religion on Gender(Midori Y. McKeon)

 No. 9(December 1995)
  Special Issue: Writing Japanese Women/Japanese Women Writing, edited by Sandra Buckley
	- Introduction(Sandra Buckley)
	- Literature and the Institution: Erasure of Women in Schoolsユ Kokugo(Chieko Ariga)
	- Bound by Blood: Female Pollution, Divinity, and Community in Enchi Fumikoユs Masks(Nina Cornyetz)
	- Sexuality, Textuality, and the Definition of the  メFeminineモ in Late Eighteenth-Century Japan(Susan Griswold)
	- The Gendering and Regendering of Medieval Japan(Thomas Keirstead)
	- メPoison Womanモ Takahashi Oden and the Spectacle of Female Deviance in Early Meiji(Christine Marran)
	- Positioning Subjects Globally: A Reading of Yamada Eimi(Richard Okada)

No.  8(June 1995)
	The Changing Form of Dwellings and the Establishment of 
		the Katei (Home) in Modern Japan(Nishikawa Yuko)
	The Birth of the Full-Time Housewife in the Japanese Worker's Household 
	As Seen Through Family Budget Surveys(Chimoto Akiko)
	Women and Views of Women Within the Changing Hygiene Conditions of 
	Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Japan(Narita Ryuichi)
	Tsushima Yuko: Nature, Legends, and Modern Japanese Women(Satomi Imai and Claire Mamola)
	A Comparison of the Buddhist Monastic Communities of Korea, 
	Taiwan, and Japan and the Sexism of the 'Eight Rules'(Kim Insook)

No.  7(December 1994)
	The Logic of Abortion: Japanese Debates on the Legitimacy 
	of Abortion as Seen in Post-World War II Newspapers(Tama Yasuko)
	The 'Good Wife and Wise Mother' Ideology in Post-World War I Japan(Koyama Shizuko)
	Images of the Family in Meiji Periodicals: The Paradox Underlying the Emergence of the 'Home'(Muta Kazue)
	Contemporary Japanese Feminist Literary Criticism(Kitada Sachie)
	The Changing Nature of Sexuality: The Three Codes 
		Framing Homosexuality in Modern Japan(Furukawa Makoto)

No. 6(March 1994)
	Postcards from the Edge: The メOffice Ladiesモ of Tokyo(Karen Kelsky)
	Recent Legal Decisions on Gender-Based Wage Discrimination(Nakajima Michiko)
	The Emergence of the Japanese Shufu : Why  a Shufu  Is More Than a メHousewifeモ(Imai Yasuko) 
	The Reform of Japanese Family Law and Changes in the Family System(Toshitani Nobuyoshi)
	Unmarried Mothers and their Children in Japan(Shimazu Yoshiko)

No. 5(July 1993)
 	The Prostitutes' Union and the Impact of the 1956 Anti-Prostitution Law in Japan(Shiga-Fujime Yuki)
	 A Feminist Reinterpretation of  The Tale of Genji : Genji and Murasaki(Komashaku Kimi)
	Sexual Harassment in Japan: Recent Legal Decisions(Tsunoda Yukiko)
	The International Movement Toward Gender Equality and its Impact on Japan(Yamashita Yasuko)
	Buddhism and the Historical Construction of Sexuality in Japan(Minamoto Junko)

No. 4(January 1993)
	Fractionated Motherhood: Status and Gender Among the Japanese Elite(Takie S. Lebra)
	A Rereading of Snow Country from Komakoユs Point of View(Tajima Yoko)
	Japanese Feminism in the 1970s and 1980s(Ehara Yumiko)
	The Formation of the Myth of Motherhood in Japan(Niwa Akiko)
	Women and the Creation of the Ie in Japan: An Overview from the Medieval Period
		 to the Present(Wakita Haruko)

No. 3(September 1992)
	Corporate-Centered Society and Womenユs Labor in Japan Today(Osawa Mari)
	 A Comparative Analysis of Gender Roles and the Status of Women 
		in Japan and the United States(Yamamoto Itsuki, et al.)
	Towards An Absolute State: Marriage in S冱ekiユs  K冕in(Komashaku Kimi)
	The Madness of Mothers in Japanese Noh Drama(Erika Ohara Bainbridge)

No. 2(February 1992)
	 The Restructuring of the Female Labor Force in Japan in the 1980s(Takenaka Emiko)
	Women in the Legal Profession in Japan(Hayashi Yoko)
	 A Short History of the Japanese American Experience(Rosalyn Tonai)
	 Japanese American Women: Three Generations, 1890-1990(Mei Nakano)
	 Searching for the Truth(Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga)
	 Silence No More(Kiku Hori Funabiki)
	 Righting a Wrong: The Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988(Leslie Hatamiya)
	The Sansei Experience(Discussion by Six Sansei)
	 The Feminist Movement: Where Are All the Asian American Women?(Esther Ngan-Ling Chow)

No. 1(August 1991)
	 The Images of Japanese Women in U.S. Studies, 1860-1990: 
		Formation and Transformation of Stereotypes(Kuzume Yoshi)
	Tradition and Change in Japan: The Case of Equal Employment Opportunity Law(Joyce Gelb)




U.S.-Japan Women's Journal(Nichibei Josei Journal )(in Japanese)(ISSN0898-8900)

Japanese Issue (No. 20, May 1996)
	― Gender Ideology and the Pornographic Culture of Japan: 
	Construction of Female Identity and Sexuality (Yoko Kawashima)
	― The First Thirty-nine Female Diet Members: Symbols of Democratization (Ogai Tokuko)
	― The Politics of Self-Sacrifice: Meetings for Families of Alcoholics in Japan (Amy Borovoy)
	― Interview Guidelines for Recruiting in the American Workplace
	― Report of the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission
	― The Entry of Women to the Education of Men(Dale Spender)
	― Occupational Gender Segregation Studies in American Sociology: 
		 A Review of Theoretical Frameworks and Future Directions (Keiko Aiba)
	― The Discovery of "Unpaid Work": The Social Consequences of the Expansion of "Work" (Susan Himmelweit)

Japanese Issue(No. 19, Winter 1995)
	― Women and Higher Education: Gender Difference in the Status of Students and Scholars
	― Toward the Reconstruction of Masculinity
	― Report fromm the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in Beijing
	― Issues and Discussions: Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action
	― How Does Gender in Japan Measure Up to World Trends?: 
		Findings from the Human Development Report 1995
	― Women and Human Development: Human Development Report 1995
	― Improving the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence: A Resource Manual for Health Care Providers
	― Discrimination against Women in the Sumitomo Corporate Group
	― Women in Agricultural Labor in Japan: Historical Development and Issues 
	― Devoted Wives/Unruly Women: Invisible Presence in the History of Japanese Social Protest

Japanese Issue(No. 18, July 1995)
	― A Comparison of the Buddhist Monastic Communities of Korea, 
		Taiwan, and Japan and the Sexism of the メEight Rulesモ
	― Akutagawa and Naoki Award-Winning Womenユs Fiction: The World Without Men
	― Male Friendship and Intimacy
	― Current Topics on Women and Labor from Monthly Labor Review
	― Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organization
	― Words and Things: Materialism and Method in Contemporary Feminist Analysis

Japanese Issue(No. 17, December 1994)
	― Intimate Relationships for Women: A U.S.-Japan Comparison
	― The Changing Nature of Sexuality: The Three Codes Framing Homosexuality in Modern Japan
	― Sex and Americaユs Teenagers
	― Marital Status and Living Arrangements: Current Population Reports(March 1993)
	― Career Counseling and Gender Issues
	― Rethinking Economics through a Feminist Lens
	― Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism

Japanese Issue(No. 16, May 1994)
	― Experiences in a Feminist Studies Course: Perspectives and Teaching Methods(Takai Yoko)
	― The Asian Women's Shelter: Asian American Women and Domestic Violence(Honda Yuka)
	― The Supreme Court's Latest Decision on Sexual Harassment: 
		Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.(Janel A. Callon)
	― Ministry of  Labor Directives as Obstacle to the Implementation of the EEOL: 
		The Multi-Track Employment System at Sh冖・Ch枳in Bank(Sh冖・Ch枳in kara danjosabetu o nakusu kai)
	― Feminist Literary Criticism in Japan Today(Kitada Sachie)
	― Lesbian Criticism in the Works of Bonnie Zimmerman(Tomioka Akemi)
	― Lesbians Like This and That: Some Notes on Lesbian Criticism for the Nineties(Bonnie Zimmerman)
	― Theories of Wage Differentials and Gender Segregation: From Human Capital Theory to 
		Institutional Approaches(Kawasima Yoko)
	― Contributions of Marxism and Feminism to the Sociology of Women and Work(Natalie J. Sokoloff)

Japanese Issue(No. 15, December 1993)
	---------  Postcards from the Edge: The メOffice Ladiesモ of Tokyo(Karen Kelsky)
	---------  Doing Business Cross Culturally: Cultural, Gender, and Racial Considerations(Debra Kajiyama)
	---------  Contemporary Issues Facing Japanユs メComfort Womenモ(Hayashi Yoko)
	---------  Women and Eating Disorders: The Sexless World of Sugartime(Hirabayashi Mitoko)
	---------  Women and Jobs in Recessions: 1969-92
	---------  The Joyless Recovery: Deteriorating wages and Job Quality in the 1990s
	---------  A Comparative Study of Gender Consciousness
		 among Japanese and American College Students(Kawashima Yoko,  Christine Yeh, Takai Yoko)
	---------  Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses(Chandra Talpade Mohanty)

Japanese Issue(No. 14, August 1993)
	---------  Men and Women of the Corporation: Numbers ― Minorities and Majorities(Rosabeth Kanter)
	---------  Recent American Scholarship of Japanese Womenユs Literature(Midori Y.  McKeon)
	---------  Black Feminist Thought: Work, Family, and Black Womenユs Oppression(Patricia Hill Collins)
	---------  Buddhism and the Historical Construction of Sexuality in Japan(Minamoto Junko)

Japanese Issue(No. 13, February 1993)
	---------  Women in Politics: The 1992 Election and the Clinton Administration
	---------  Self-Defense and Womenユs Empowerment: The Model Mugging Program(Debra Kajiyama)
	---------  A Pro-Feminist Man Looks at Menユs Studies and Menユs Movements(Michael Kimmel)
	---------  The Miss Indian Nations Pageant and its Social Significance(Takako Day)

	---------  Women in Mathematics and the Sciences
	---------  The Wage Differential between Women and Men: Recent Legal Decisions(Nakajima Michiko)
	---------  Affirmative Action and Comparable Worth: Theory and Practice in the U.S.(Kawashima Yoko)
	---------  Women and the Creation of the Ie  in Japan: An Overview from the Medieval Period
		to the Present(Wakita Haruko)
	---------  Postmortem on Postfeminism(Tania Modleski)

Japanese Issue(No. 12, July 1992) 
	---------  The Politics of Womenユs Rights in Japan during the Occupation(Susan J. Pharr)
	---------  How Schools Shortchange Girls(An AAUW Report)
	---------  The Glass Ceiling Initiative
	---------  Sexual Harassment Case in Fukuoka(Tsunoda Yukiko)
	---------   Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality(Harry Brod)
	---------  Her Body / His Text: A Critique of Gender Ideology in Japanese Literature(Ariga Chieko)
	---------  Common Themes, Different Contexts: Third World Women and Feminism(Cheryl Johnson-Odim)
	---------  Chinese Women during the Economic Reform in the 1980s(Kuzume Yoshi)

Japanese Issue(No. 11, February 1992)
	---------  Feminism and Japanese Literature: An Interview with Professor Masao Miyoshi
	---------  Japanese Women in International Marriages: A Study from 
		the Viewpoint of an Asian Woman in America(Takako Day)
	---------  How Corporations Shape Japanese Men(Kitamura Ryuko)
	---------  Sexual Harassment and a Supreme Court Judge
	---------  American Families: 75 Years of Changes(James R. Wetzel)
	---------  Helping Employees with Family Care(Stephanie L. Hyland)
	---------  Images of African American Women in Ebony (Iwamoto Hiroko)
	---------  Women in Israel: An Unfulfilled Promise(Yael Yishai)

Japanese Issue(No. 10, July 1991)
	---------  Eleanor of Aquitaine, Joan of Arc, and Emma Bovary: 
		Seeking Patterns in Womenユs Experience(Carolyn C. Lougee)
	---------  What Men Really Want: An Interview with Robert Bly(Keith Thompson)
	---------  A Short History of the Japanese American Experience(Rosalyn Tonai)
	---------  Japanese American Women: Three Generations, 1890-1990(Mei Nakano) 
	---------  Searching for the Truth(Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga)
	--------- Silence No More(A Testimony Before the Congressional Committee)(Kiku Hori Funabiki)
	--------- Righting a Wrong: The Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988(Leslie Hatamiya)
	--------- The Sansei Experience(Discussion by Six Sansei)
	--------- The Feminist Movement: Where Are All the Asian American Women?(Esther Ngan-Ling Chow)
	---------  Tradition and Change in Japan: The Case of Equal Employment Opportunity Law(Joyce Gelb)

Japanese Issue(No. 9, March 1991)  
	---------  Women in Leadership(Johnnetta B. Cole)  
	---------  Womenユs Organizations in the 1990 Elections  
	---------  BPW: Networking of Working Women(Yokota Keiko)  
	---------  American Women Doing Business with the Japanese  
	---------  Female vs. Male Management Styles in the U.S. and Japan(Akiko S. Docker)  
	---------  A Case Study of Comparable Worth Pay Equity in Santa Clara County, California  
	---------  A Future for the Worldユs Children(Neera Kuckreja Sohoni)  
	---------  Women in the Legal Profession in Japan(Hayashi Yoko)  
	---------  A Framework for Research on Men and Masculinity(Michael Kaufman)  
	--------- The Romance of Patriarchy: 
		Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory(Teresa L. Ebert)  

Japanese Issue(No. 8, 1990)  
	--------- 1980s Backlash Against Womenユs Rights(Susan Faludi)  
	--------- The Case for Womenユs Colleges(Kerry Strand)  
	---------  Current Issues(Womenユs Colleges, etc.)  
	---------  The Menユs Movement: Different Directions and Development(Kawashima Yoko)  
	--------- The Contemporary Man(Joseph H. Pleck)  
	--------- The Images of Japanese Women in U.S. Studies, 1860-1990:
		 Formation and Transformation of Stereotypes(Yoshi Kuzume)
	---------  Japanese Womenユs Literature under the Patriarchy: Where Has Amino Kiku Gone?(Ariga Chieko)  

Japanese Issue(No. 7, 1990)  
	---------  Beyond the Mommy Track(Panel Discussion)  
	--------- The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home(Arlie Hochschild)  
	---------  Current Issues(Military Women and Combat; Women in Science and Engineering, etc.)  
	---------  The Menユs Movement: The Awakening of Menユs Inner Lives(Interview with Steven Kessler)  
	---------  Women and Career in Wild Life Management(Interview with Rebecca Field)  
	--------- Messages from African-American Women(Hiroko Iwamoto)
	--------- Why Women are in Power in the Nordic Countries but not in the U.S.(Arne Selbyg)  
	---------  Feminism in Italy(Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum)  
	---------  What is a Woman? The Focal Point of Current Feminist Theory in America(Ariga Chieko)  

Japanese Issue(No. 6, 1989)  
	--------- Women and Leadership in Law(Interview with Barbara A. Babcock)  
	--------- Current Issues(Sexual Harassment; The Missouri Abortion Case; Employment and Caregiving, etc.)  
	--------- Second Chances: 15 Years after Divorce(Interview with Judith S. Wallerstein)  
	---------  Childrenユs Rights: A Framework for Analysis(Michael S. Wald)  
	---------  American Fathering in Historical Perspective(Joseph H. Pleck)  
	---------  Sandwich Generation(Kathleen McConnell)  
	--------- Women in India(Neera Kuckreja Sohoni)  

Japanese Issue(No. 5, 1989)  
	--------- Women and Leadership: What Difference Does It Make?(Nannerl O. Keohane)  
	---------  Why Men Are The Way They Are(Warren Farrell)  
	--------- Current Issues(Abortion; Two Track System; Promotion and Gender Stereotype, etc.)  
	---------  Issues of Gender Equality in Sweden  
	---------   The Empowerment of Women in Sweden(Conference)  
	---------   The Swedish Social Democrats and the Importance of Gender(Yvonne Hirdman)  
	---------  Economic Equality for Swedish Women
	---------   Gender Politics and Public Policies in Sweden(Maud L. Eduards)  
	---------   New Ways to Work(Interview with Barney Olmsted)  

Japanese Issue(No. 4, 1989)  
	---------   The Second Stage(Betty Friedan)  
	---------   Changes in the Workplace over 20 Years(Interview with Jan Z. Boel)  
	---------   Current Issues(Feminization of Power; Unwed Fathersユ Rights; Reproductive Technology, etc.)  
	---------   Perspectives on Professional Women(Deborah L. Rhode)  
	---------  Ectogenesis and Feminist Arguments for Reproductive Rights(Julien S. Murphy)  

Japanese Issue(No. 3, 1988)  
	--------- Interview with Wellesley President, Nannerl Keohane  
	---------   Current Issues(Child Care; Women Lawyers; VDT, etc.)  
	---------   Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach(Karen Offen)  
	---------  The Pleasures and Pains of Adultery(Annette Lawson)  
	---------   Report of SID Meeting on Gender and Equity(New Delhi, 1988)(Jean Davison)  
	---------  Japanese Womenユs Status is 34th in the World  

Japanese Issue(No. 2, 1988)  
	---------   Current Issues(Civil Rights Restoration Act; Women and Religion; Women in the Military, etc.)  
	---------  Women and Technology: From Technophobia to Technocompetence(Autumn Stanley)  
	---------   Separatism or Integrationism: Lessons from American Womenユs History(Estelle Freedman)  
	---------  Feminism in the Academy: Feminist Scholarship in Anthropology, History, and Literature  

Japanese Issue(No. 1, 1988)  
	---------   Announcement of the Publication of the US-Japan Womenユs Journal  
	---------   Current Issues(Baby M; Menユs Clubs; Prince Charming, etc.)  
	---------   Comparable Worth and Affirmative Action(Kawashima Yoko)  
	---------   Erosion of the Sexual Double Standard(Martha Tocco)  
	---------   On the French Origin of the Words, Feminist and Feminism(Karen Offen)
	---------   Feminism in the Academy: 20 Years of the Womenユs Movement  



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