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Professor
Director, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

• Affiliation(s)

  • Women's Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Premodern patterns of gender construction and representation
  • war and manhood
  • work and environment
  • reproduction and lineage
  • impurity and law
  • violence and heroism
  • samurai films

• About

  Selected Publications:

  “Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Japan,” in Blackwell Companion to Japanese History, ed. William M. Tsutsui (Blackwell, 2007)

  Women and Class in Japanese History, with Anne Walthall and Haruko Wakita (Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 1999 / University of Michigan Press; paper edition, 2006)

   Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan: The Corporate Villages of Tokuchin-ho (Stanford University Press, 1992)

• Education

  • PhD, History, Stanford University, 1986
  • MA, Asian Studies, Univeristy of Oregon, 1979