グローバル教養特別演習III（１１）

the following subjects will be covered in 13 weeks, and the order may change depending on the availability of some guest speakers 1. Introduction Course introduction Self-introduction Discussion: what do you want to do with this course? 2. 1968: ‘The personal is political’- 1960s radicalism and women Gewalt Rosa: Women and Violence (1968~1974) Did women only ‘made rice balls’? Japan Red Army (Shigenobu Fusako), United Red Army(Nagata Hiroko) East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front 3. Chu-pi ren (Alliance of women against the ban on birth-control pills and undesirable changes on the abortion law) and Women's lib (1969~1975) Enoki Misako and Direct Action Tanaka Mitsu 'Liberation from Toilets' Film: 'Ripples of Change' (1993) The aftermath of Women's Lib. 4. The Counter culture and female artists in the 1960s ‘Angra’ (underground) art movement – theater, dance, and other performance ‘Nikutai no hanran' (Revolt of the Body): Hijikata Tatsumi and Ankoku Butoh 5. 1975~ Authorization of ‘Equality’ 1975 International Women’s Year 1975~85 United Nation’s decade of women 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law What happened to Woman Lib? Guest speaker: Kurihara Nanako, the director of 'Ripples of Change' 6. Nakajima Natsu's Butoh workshop (online) Workshop will be recorded and uploaded. Nakajima will give a talk on Zoom 7. 1990~ Feminism Art Introduction of feminist theories, ‘women’s studies’ in academia Ueno Chizuko Chino Kaori (art history) – Image & Gender study group ‘Gender’-themed art exhibitions: Kasahara Michiko, curator ‘Gender: Beyond Memories’ (1996) ‘Love’s Body’ (1998) ‘Borderline Cases’ (2004) Feminist artists: Ito Tari, Yoshiko Shimada, Idemitsu Mako Young feminist artists – practices of the '4th wave' feminist artists Tomorrow Girls Troop Back and Forth Collective 8. ‘Comfort women’ issue and Backlash ‘Comfort women’ and Japanese feminists The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery (2002) ‘Atarashii Kyokasho o Tsukuru Kai (A Society for New Japanese Textbook)’ Revisionists against ‘comfort women’ – ‘they were just prostitutes’ Backlash and self-censorship 9. Freedom of Expression? Censorship and Gender Problems Guest lecturer: Marcello Farabegoli, curator of 'Japan Unlimited' The Japanese government's intervention in the 'comfort women' statue. 'After: Freedom of Expression?' Exhibition at Aichi Triennale Film 'Main Battlefield' (dir. Miki Dezaki, 2019) 10. Art and Education: De-politicization of university campus Sexual- and academic-harassments on campus Gender imbalance of the faculty and students Lack of gender-related courses 11. Gentrification of Shibuya before the Olympics Guest speaker Ichimura Misako, an artist and activist for the homeless in Tokyo 'Haijo Art' (Hostile art and architecture) designed to exclude the homeless in Shibuya, Yoyogi area. 'Socially engaged' Art that caters for the authority (public art in Shibuya, 'rebuilding Fukushima' etc.) 12,13. Presentations and discussions Each student will do 15-20 min. presentation on how to change the gender inequality.

This class will be on-demand and on-line based. I will upload power point, lecture notes, and/or recorded lecture/talk (audio only) a week before each class, which you should watch/listen before the class time. The zoom meeting class will start at 14:00 with a brief summary of the subject, followed by questions and discussion. The students can submit questions or thoughts on bulletin board or email after each class period. We will have guest artists who are engaged in woman- and feminism related art practices, and a curator. Their lecture may be recorded and uploaded earlier or at real time zoom meeting. There will be an online workshop.

The evaluation will be based on active participation in classworks, and the final project. The final project should address the current gender situation in Japan and abroad. It can take the form of a paper, or power point presentation (including performance, activism), or submission of artworks, film, etc. The presentation should be 15~20 min. with power point. A paper should be around 2,000 words. You can do either presentation or paper, or both( real time Zoom or submit a file).

There is no textbook. I will provide reading materials and power point at every class.

‘Remembering the Grandmothers: The international movement to comeorate the survivors of militarized sexual abuse in the Asia-Pacific War’ Vera Mackie https://apjjf.org/***** Chelsea Send Schieder 'Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left, 1957-1972' https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/*****

The workshop involves physical exercise, but this will not be not vigorous. It may be conducted online from Nakajima's studio depending on the pandemic situation.