Professor Chizuko Ueno, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University Tokyo
Professor Chizuko Ueno has arguably been the most influential feminist public intellectual and feminist scholar since the 1980s in Japan.
She has authored and edited over 100 books and anthologies, lectured and published in journals across the US, Europe, Mexico, and Asia. Her range of works include, Gender and Nationalism (2004), Gender and Japanese History Vols 1 & 2, and in Japanese, now classic feminist works, such as Patriarchy and Capitalism (1990), and most recently, Post-Identity (2006), and A Thought for Survival (2006).
Prof. Ueno has most recently been fighting what has been described as a censorship battle against the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in response to its intervention to cancel a public lecture series on human rights that she was scheduled to give in 2005.
Her talk will discuss the emergence and scope of the current backlash against feminism in Japan.