This course introduces the social scientific study of gender, sexuality, and family in Japan from the postwar to the contemporary period from a comparative perspective.
This course will critically question what gender, sex, and sexuality mean and how these concepts are shaping and shaped by contemporary Japanese society, particularly in spheres of work, family, and popular culture. More broadly, this course will offer an entry into theories of gender studies and sexuality, and also introduce tools to critically analyze cultural differences manifested in the issues of gender and sexuality while at the same time learning more about Japanese society.
- Trainer/in: Isaac Gagne