University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
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Selected Publications:
"'Sexuality' in Traditional System of Thought and Belief in Premodern Japan," in The Cambridge World History of Sexualities, edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Mathew Kuefler (Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 136-57.
"Gender Studies and Challenge of Historical Exhibition," Bulletin of the National Museum of Japanese History, vol 219 (Tokyo: National Museum of Japanese History, 2020), pp. 427-42.
"Revealing the Manly Worth: Cut Flesh in the Heavenly Disorder of Medieval Japan," in The Cambridge World History of Violence, vol. II: The Medieval Era, edited by Richard W. Kaeuper, D.G. Tor, and Harriet Zumdorfer (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 556-75.
"Gender Relations in the Age of Violence, " in Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850, edited by Karl Friday (Westview Press, 2012), pp. 267-77.
“Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Japan,” in Blackwell Companion to Japanese History, ed. William M. Tsutsui (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 351-71.
"Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court: Lady Nijō's Memoir." Monumenta Nipponica 61.3 (Fall 2006), pp. 283-338.
Women and Class in Japanese History, with Anne Walthall and Haruko Wakita (Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 1999 / University of Michigan Press; paper edition, 2006)
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan: The Corporate Villages of Tokuchin-ho (Stanford University Press, 1992)
Affiliation(s)
- Women's and Gender Studies, Center for Japanese Studies
Field(s) of Study
- Premodern patterns of gender construction and representation
- war and manhood
- work and environment
- reproduction and lineage
- impurity and law
- violence and heroism
- samurai films
