Women's Studies Colloquium April 16

April 16:

“A Japanese in Every Jet” Gender, Mobility, and Modernity in Postwar Japan

By Dr. Christine Yano (Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, UHM)
Date: Thursday April 16
Time: 3:00 pm—4:30 pm
Location: Korean Studies Auditorium, East West Rd (opp. Moore Hall)

(Refreshments Provided)

See attached flyer for more information.

Abstract:
In 1964, the Japanese government lifted international travel restrictions, opening the floodgates for international travel. By May 1967, Life magazine proclaimed, “Newest Stewardess Fad: A Japanese in Every Jet,” featuring Japanese stewardesses on eleven international carriers.

This paper examines the “Japanese-in-every-jet” phenomenon through the experiences of Japanese stewardesses who flew for the world’s premier carrier, Pan American World Airways.
It suggests that the job took elite Japanese women out of the national home and into the corporate sphere of Pan Am’s global cabin and foreign ports of call.

Free and open to the public.

WS colloquium March 20, 2009

Battle of the Sexes in the New Millennium

Examining Sport and Gender

Trina Kudlacek

(UHM, Office of Student Athlete Academic Services)

March 20 (Friday)

12:30pm-1:30pm, Saunders 541

Abstract

The 1970’s were a pivotal decade for the empowerment of women and women’s involvement in sport reflected the spirit of the times. In 1972, Title IX was passed and in 1973 Billy Jean King played Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes”. Now, 36 years later, both women and men, are becoming more aware of how traditional gender roles shape and restrict their participation in sport as in larger society. This talk will examine the importance of sport, as a socially constructed and gendered institution, through which hegemonic masculinity is reproduced and reinforced.

Trina Kudlacek received her Doctorate of Education in Sport Psychology and Counseling from Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Her academic focus has been on diversity issues in athletics with particular emphasis on race, ethnicity, and gender. She has worked in academic support services with college student-athletes for 17 years and currently has a position as an academic adviser for the Office of Student Athlete Academic Services at UH Manoa. In addition to academic advising, Trina currently teaches two courses on line at Oregon State University, one in the Exercise and Sport Sciences entitled "Power and Privilege in Sport" and the other "Women in Sport" through the Women's Studies Department. She also teaches a course in the sociology of sport in the Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science Dept. at UH Manoa. She is the author of a textbook chapter on sychosocial issues of college student-athletes and has also presented at national and international conferences on coach/athlete relationships, diversity issues for student-athletes of color, and academic support strategies for student-athletes.

Rainbow bridge academic fair

Women's Studies participated in the Rainbow Bridge Academic Fair.
More on the Rainbow Bridge Program:

The Rainbow Bridge program will familiarize prospective community college transfer students with the Mānoa campus, inform them on policies and procedures which affect their enrollment at Mānoa, showcase various academic and student service programs, and provide opportunities for students to network with Mānoa faculty and staff.


If you are transfer students to Manoa and would like to know more about Women's Studies, please contact 956-7464, or email any of our faculty members.

WS colloquium March 13 (F) Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience

Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience

Yuma Totani

Department of History, UHM

--Co-sponsored with Center for Japanese Studies--

March 13 (Friday) 12:30pm-1:30pm, Saunders 541

Abstract

Since the establishment of international tribunals in the 1990s, there have been debates concerning the extent to which justice systems can help victims and perpetrators of mass atrocity begin the process of confronting the past and restoring the fabric of torn communities. This paper explores how rape, sexual slavery, and other forms of sexual violence that accompanied the Japanese conduct of war were documented at WWII war crimes trials on the one hand and the present-day civil lawsuits on the other. By comparing the two types of legal proceedings, Totani considers the possibilities and limitations of the judiciary in achieving justice, establishing accountability, and restoring the dignity of the victims of atrocity.

Yuma Totani obtained her Ph.D. in History at the University of California at Berkeley, in 2005. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, in 2005-2006. She is currently an assistant professor of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her representative publication is The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008). The Japanese edition, Tōkyō saiban: dai 2-ji taisen go no hō to seigi no tsuikyū (Tokyo: Misuzu shobō, 2008), is translated and revised by the author.