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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Japanese Women"”.
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In the Intimate Arena: Japanese Women and Their Families
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Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn
<p>Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn</p><p>This dissertation explores body aesthetics and anxieties through analyses of contemporary fiction by women. Framed in terms of "the male gaze," it analyzes the ways in which women writing today negotiate and reappropriate the …
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Maintaining wa (harmony): Japanese women negotiating their birth experiences in New Zealand
This thesis explores Japanese women’s birth experiences in Dunedin, New Zealand. New Zealand is a multicultural society comprised of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Currently, nearly 10% of the population identify as being of Asian descent, and this group has grown the fastest among all …
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A Culture Building Approach to Intercultural Communication: Japanese Women in International Wives' Groups
… all intercultural communication situations. The Japanese women's accounts show that what they enjoyed, appreciated, and found special about the groups was the culture building talk, and that it was culture building intercultural communication that they wished to experience more. However, for the …
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Feminine Identity Confined: The Archaeology of Japanese Women at Amache, a WWII Internment Camp
<p>In 1942, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were evacuated from the West Coast to ten different internment camps in the interior of the United States. One of these camps was the Granada Relocation Center, otherwise known as Amache, located in southeastern Colorado. Through the …
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Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars: Japanese Women, Hong Kong Cinema, and Transcultural Fandom
… a historical materialist perspective on the Japanese female fandom of Hong Kong stars that arose in the mid-1980s and peaked in the late 1990s. This fandom was unique among non-diasporic, transnational audiences of Hong Kong cinema for its female composition and its star-centeredness, which …
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The myth of a homogeneous speech community: The speech of Japanese women in non-traditional gender roles
… variable, I have focused on the speech of Japanese women whose gender roles have undergone drastic transformation in contemporary society. The research consists of two particular phases of investigation. The first phase involves using the variationist approach to analyze the speech of three …
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Facing Japan While Living in the United States: The Study Abroad Experiences and Expectations of Japanese Women
… of the ""international student"" and the ""Japanese student"" in the cross disciplinary literature in international education. Moreover, an understanding of how Japanese women ""face Japan"" during their educational experiences abroad has applied significance for practitioners in the field …
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The discursive construction of hegemonic and pariah femininities in the spoken accounts of a group of Japanese women
… in the spoken accounts of a group of Japanese women. Semi-structured individual and group interviews were conducted with a sample of women and the data was analysed using a Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP) approach. This study makes a contribution to both gender theory and critical …
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Reflecting (on) the Orientalist Gaze: A Feminist Analysis of Japanese-U.S. GIs Intimacy in Postwar Japan and Contemporary Okinawa
… explores experiences of two generations of Japanese women, "war brides," who married U.S. GIs and moved to the U.S. in the post-World War II era, and "military wives," who married U.S. GIs within the past twenty years and who currently live in Okinawa. My purpose in this study is to examine, …
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Made Visible: Women Artists and the Performance of Femininity in Modern Japanese Art, 1900-1930
… a new framework for understanding individual Japanese women artists’ work and the systems of gender oppression that characterized modern Japanese art. It does so by engaging with the visualization of Japanese women artists in the early twentieth century. In response to societal anxiety about …
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In the Voices of Men, Beasts, and Gods: Unmasking the Abject Persona in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry
… in the works of contemporary and postwar Japanese women poets Ishigaki Rin: 1920-2004), Tomioka Taeko: b. 1935), Yoshihara Sachiko: 1932-2002), It├┤ Hiromi: b. 1955), and Isaka Yok├┤: b. 1949). Recognizing the strong sense of abjection that permeates postwar and contemporary Japanese …
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Transnational Divorce: The Violation of Immigrant Japanese Mothers' Rights an the Hague Abduction Convention
… raises the important question of how immigrant Japanese mothers’ fundamental rights can be protected. The voices of Japanese women have long been silenced in the context of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Through in-depth interviews with Japanese …
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Women's experiences of recovery from alcohol dependency in Tohoku region, Japan: their views of needs for recovery
… a phenomenological methodology to understand Japanese women, living in Tohoku region, Japan, who have the experience of alcohol dependency and recovery. Moreover, the purpose of the study was to understand what would be the most effective ways if supporting women in rural communities. Six …
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Speech Aerodynamics of American English and Japanese Speakers
… for seven American English speakers and seven Japanese speakers. Estimated subglottal air pressure, laryngeal air flow, and laryngeal airway resistance were measured during a syllable production task, and volume per syllable was measure during a sentence production task. There were no group …
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War Time Memories Of Shojo (Girl) - An Analysis Of A Japanese Girls' Magazine, Shojo No Tomo, And Its Readers
This study researched a Japanese girls’ magazine, Shojo no Tomo (A Friend of Girls), which was published before WWII and republished in 2009. By focusing on the republication of the magazine after more than 50 years, the study shohow Japanese women remember their girlhood during the war and how …
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Comparing the Reproductive Climates of Japan, Norway and Italy: A New Way of Looking at the Reasons for Low Fertility Rates
… the decline, and many have placed the blame on Japanese women without examining the reasons these women have for having fewer children or forgoing motherhood altogether. But Japan is not the only nation suffering from population decline. Other smaller, industrialized nations also face the same …
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The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
… provided opportunities for one subaltern group, Japanese women, to gain autonomy. While some feminist movements in Japan substantiate the notion that autonomy must be gained through rebellion, The Strangeness of Beauty suggests that this is merely one possible method for gaining autonomy—and an …
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Japan's Employment 'Catch-22': The Impact of Working Conditions for Women in Japan on Japan's Demographic Population Crisis
… other industrialized nations when it comes to women’s rights and opportunities for advancement in the workplace. This is in turn hampering efforts for Japan to address a population crisis, with an older population growth rate far outpacing the growth of demographic groups that would support the …
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