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Apr. 5: "Traditional" Chinese Women

Mann, Learned Women in the Eighteenth Century
Silber, From Daughter to Daughter-in-law
Carlitz, Desire, Danger and the Body
Furth, Rethinking Van Gulik


Apr. 12: Chinese Women in Revolution

Hershatter, Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity
Gilmartin, Gender, Pol. Cul. and Women's Mobilization
Rofel, Liberation Nostalgia
Li, Women's Consciousness & Women's Writing


Apr. 19: Women in the PRC

White, Origins of China's Birth Planning Policy
Woo, Chinese Women Workers
Zhu, Women, Illness and Hospitalization
Li, Economic Reform/Women's Collective Consciousness


Apr. 26: "Traditional" Japanese Women

Walthall, Life Cycle of Farm Women/Tokugawa Japan
Cornell, Deaths of Old Women
Robertson, The Shingaku Woman
Fister, Female Bunjin
Lebra, Women in an All-Male Industry: Sake Brewer


May 3: Women in Prewar Japan

Nolte/Hastings, Meiji Policy Toward Women, 1890-1910
Rodd, Yosano Akiko/Taisho Debate over the New Woman
Nagy, Middle-Class Working Women/Interwar Years
Molony, Activism/Women/Cotton Textile Industry
Silverberg, Modern Girl as Militant

May 5: Women in Postwar Japan

Miyake, Doubling Expectations/Factory Work, 30s/40s
Hauser: Women and War: Japanese Film Image
Lebra, Postmarital Involvement [R-Lebra]
Kanazumi, Lawyer, Women's Legal Coop. [R-Buckley
Kirara, A Lesbian in Hokkaido [R-Summerhawk]

Anonymous, A Married Woman [R-Summerhawk]



May 17: "Traditional" Korean Women

Kendall/Peterson, "Traditional" Korean Women
Wagner, Women's Status in Early Yi Dynasty Korea
Peterson, Women Without Sons
Harvey, Minmyonuri: The Daughter-in-Law...


May 24: Women in Colonial Korea

Moon, Begetting the Nation [R-Kim]
Yang, Remembering Comfort Women [R-Kim]


May 26: Women in Postwar Korea

Sorensen, Women, Men; Inside, Outside
Cho, The Autonomous Women: Divers on Cheju Island
Kendall, Korean Ancestors From the Woman's Side
Wilson, The Korean Shaman
Young, City Women and Divination


Books on Reserve:



Buckley, Broken Silence

Kim, Dangerous Women

Lebra, Japanese Women

Summerhawk, Queer Japan