October 15, 2007
Lyon College News Bureau

Japan Lecture Series event to feature expert on feminism in Japan Oct. 22

An expert in feminism in Japan will address the “Politics of Gender” as part of the 2007-08 Japan Lecture Series at Lyon College.

On Monday, Oct. 22, from 7 - 8:30 p.m., Dr. Linda White will present “The Politics of Gender in 21st Century Japan” in the Derby Lecture Hall at Lyon.

Dr. White teaches anthropology and gender studies at Middlebury College. Her research is on Japanese feminism and its global dimensions, and gender and death in the debate on organ transplants in Japan and in cross border transplants.

She is currently working on a manuscript on the transnational and local components of grassroots Japanese feminism. She is also making a documentary film that traces the life history of a ninety-year-old Tokyo woman. She received her M.A. in Asian Studies from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

For more information, contact Mieko Peek, instructor of Japanese Language and Literature, at (870) 793-1790, or e-mail her at: mpeek@lyon.edu.