Day: Thursdays
Time: 9:00-11:50 a.m.
Location: Girvetz 1108
Enrollment Code: 55418
Description:
This freshman seminar examines modern and present-day representations of MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN JAPAN. We will discuss visual materials and texts that introduce a variety of male/masculine types including homosexuals, machos and losers, fathers, company men and soldiers, among others.
The seminar is organized around discussion
sessions and students are expected to actively participate in these discussions.
Professor Sabine Fruhstuck, East Asian Studies, is a specialist of modern and contemporary Japan with training in both sociology and history. She published two books, one is a modern historiography of sexuality, the other a socioanthropological analysis of the post-WWII Japaneses military. Her undergrad courses include Violence and the State, Culture and Society of Japan, Representations of Sexuality in Modern Japan, Modernity and the Masses of Taisho Japan, Popular Japanese Culture, etc.
Email: fruhstuck@eastasian.ucsb.edu
