Japan Lecture Series 2007-2008

Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas  

The Politics of Gender in 21st Century Japan

By Dr. Linda White

Monday, October 22, 2007

Free admission

For more information, contact Mieko U. Peek at mpeek@lyon.edu

Dr. Linda 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.

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