Showing a limited preview of this publication: Yuko MatsumotoWomen’s History and Gender Historyin Japan1 Women’s History and Gender History in Japan1.1 Women’s History in JapanJapan has a long tradition of research on Japanese women’s history. Already inthe prewar period, both male and fe...
A core of educated women in both Japan and China joined the call by speaking and writing in public for the first time. Conservative nationalists and traditionalists in Japan and China at different times reacted by mounting long campaigns against any change in gender roles. Ultimately female ...
Thus, in spite of general reservations about and prohibitions on women, there is still a role for women in hunting.doi:10.1177/097185240100500105Singh, K.S.Sage PublicationsGender Technology & DevelopmentSingh, K.S. 2001. Gender roles in history: women as hunters. Gender, Technology and...
Gender Roles in the 1950s: Definition and Overview Gender roles are expectations about behaviors and duties performed by each sex. For example, it is typical in the Western world to idealize the role of men as provider for a wife and family, while women are expected to keep house and be...
This research proposes the hypothesis that societies with long histories of agriculture have less equality in gender roles as a consequence of more patriarchal values and beliefs regarding the proper role of women in society. We test this hypothesis in a world sample of countries, in a sample of...
The Japanese names, Nihon and Nippon, are alternative readings of written characters that mean "origin of the sun" ("Land of the Rising Sun"). European names for the country probably originated with Marco Polo, who most likely adopted a name for Japan used in a Chinese dialect. The nam...
However, Ishida argues they are both: "Understanding the intersection of representational appropriation and self-projection will help us see why yaoi /BL endlessly demands the reinsertion of gender power dynamics via the roles of uke and seme to a world where the gender binary 展开 ...
A History of Japanese Theatre || Interlude Katari narrative traditions: from storytelling to theatre Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) is critical for genome stability because of its roles in double-strand break repair. Ku and ligase D (LigD) are the crucia......
although traditionally thought of as a country in which political power was (and remains) the preserve of men, four of the most important rulers who took Japan from a backwater known as the Land of Dwarves to the Land of the Rising Sun, were women. Significant but less-told and less acc...
and modernizing programs of the Kabul elites, who sometimes imposed their reforms with insensitivity, arrogance, and even cruelty, particularly during the Communist era. Modern values, especially with regard to gender roles, were also associated with hated foreign imperialists, whether British or ...