Week 0

0a Thurs 9/28:
OUTLINE

9/28: Introduction to Course and Concepts of Biological Sex/Gender/Sexual Preference

Video intro to distinction between Gender and Biological Sex

Transcript of video (Study.com)

Weeks 1-3a

1a Tues 10/3:
OUTLINE

10/3 Discussion

1b Thurs 10/5:
OUTLINE

2a Tues 10/10:
OUTLINE

10/10 Discussion

2b Thurs 10/12
OUTLINE

Online lecture1

3a Tues 10/17:
OUTLINE

10/17 Discussion

10/ 3: The Heian Marriage System

a) William McCullough, "Japanese Marriage Institutions" [click here]

10/5: The Kagerô Diary

a) Excerpt from The Kagerô Diary (Kagerô nikki), introduction and translation, Sonja Arntzen [click here]

10/10: Marriage Politics in Tale of Genji

a) Richard Bowring, trans., Murasaki Shikibu, Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs, pp. 123-141 [click here]

c) Optional: Richard Bowring, Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji, "The Cultural Background," pp. 1-21 [click here]

10/12: The Woman's Weapon: Jealousy and Possession                     

            a) Tale of Genji chapters 4, 5, [6], [7], 8, 9, 10 [11] pp. 53-225

10/17: More Marriage Politics and Discussion of Heian Ideals  

a) Tale of Genji Chapters 12, 13, 14, [15], [16], 17, 18 pp. 227-344

Images & Study Questions

Week 3b-4a

3b Thur 10/19:
OUTLINE

Discussion Forum

4a Tues 10/24:
OUTLINE

Online Lecture 1: Political Changes & Women

Online Lecture 2: Economic Changes & Women

10/19: Education for Women in the Heian period

a) Review Murasaki Shikibu's Diary (pp. 133, 137-139 and elsewhere) in which she discusses learning Chinese and teaching it to the Empress.

b) Review Tale of Genji "Broom Tree" (Chapter Two) Rainy Night discussion of women's education (pp. 27 on arts, 33-35 on Chinese)

b) Robert L. Backus, trans., "The Lady Who Admired Vermin" [click here]

c) Jo Boaler, "Paying the Price for Sugar and Spice," What's Math Got To Do With It (Penguin Books, 2009)

d) New York Times article (1/18/2005) on then Harvard President Larry Summer's comment that one reason there are more men teaching in math and science departments is that differences in math ability between men and women may be innate.

10/ 24: Kamakura Period Changes for Women

Watch the online lectures 1 & 2 before class. The lectures provide a historical framework, which is reinforced in the Tonomura article. The class outline includes the outline for the online lecture. I will assume in my lecture that you have watched the videos!

a) Hitomi Tonomura, "Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society" [click here] 

b) Donald Keene, "A Neglected Chapter: Courtly Fiction of the Kamakura Period" pp. 1-3, 10 (from Ariake no Wakare)-21 [click here]

c) Robert Omar Khan, trans., "Parting at Dawn" (Ariake no Wakare) [click here]

d) Synopsis of Torikaebaya [click here]

Weeks 4b-6a

4b-5a Thurs 10/ 26, Tues 10/31
OUTLINE

10/31Discussion

5b Thurs 11/2
OUTLINE

6a Tues 11/7
OUTLINE

11/7Discussion

 ***PAPER ONE DUE IN CLASS THURSDAY October 26***

10/ 26 & 10/31: Idealized and Demonized Feminine in Noh Theater: Tale of Genji vs. Aoi no Ue

a) Aoi no Ue [includes introduction to Noh, as well as an introduction to the play, which is helpful!)

See "photo story" for images

b) Nonomiya: The Wildwood Shrine[English], translation by Royall Tyler, Japanese Nō Dramas (pp. 205-214). Again the introduction to the play is helpful!

See"photo story" for images

c) Review: Tale of Genji, chapters 9 and 10 ("Heart-to-Heart" and "The Green Branch")

d) Optional reading: Royall Tyler, "General Introduction" to Japanese Nō Dramas (pp. 3-21)

Videos: "Tradition of Performing Arts in Japan: Noh" and "Aoi no Ue" (full production in Japanese only)

Additional for 10/31:

a) synopsis of Noh play Yashima

b) synopsis of Noh play Izutsu

11/2-11/7: Battle of the Sexes: Gender Representation in Noh and Kyogen

Review: [J Trad Thtr] Karen Brazell, "Japanese Theater: A Living Tradition" (3-10, 24-39); "The Noh and Kyogen Theater: Elements of Performance" (115-125)

a) The Fortified Beard (Higeyagura), trans. Rika Kawamura
[click here]

b) Kintozaemon (AKA Yase Matsu) trans. Nadia Chung
synopsis [click here]
Full play [click here]

c) Chigiriki [click here]

d) My Baby's Mother (Hoshigahaha) [click here]

e) The Stone God ( Ishigami ) [click here]

f) The Drunken Wife ( Inabado )
synopsis [click here]
full text [click here]



Videos: This is Noh, This is Kyogen, excerpts from The Fortified Beard, Kintozaemon, Chigiriki, Inabado

6b Thurs 11/9:
OUTLINE

7a-b Tues-Thurs 11/14, 11/16:
OUTLINE

Thurs 11/16 Discussion

 EDO/TOKUGAWA PERIOD (1600-1868)
 

*****PAPER 2 DUE TUESDAY 11/14 IN CLASS*****

11/9: Men Playing Women: The Onnagata

a) Gail Bernstein, "Introduction," in Recreating Japanese Women [click here]

b ) Jennifer Robertson, "Shingaku Woman: Straight from the Heart" [click here]

c) Excerpts from "The Actors Analects" [click here]

            Video: Portrait of an Onnagata

11/14 Love Suicides at Amijima

a) Karen Brazell, "Elements of Performance," [Traditional Japanese Theater, pp. 303-313 or click here]

b) Chikamatsu, Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinju ten no Amijima) [Trad J. Thtr, pp. 335-363 or click here]

Video: excerpts from Bunraku and Kabuki versions of Love Suicides at Amijima

YOUTUBE video of NHK presentations on Bunraku version of Love Suicides at Amijima part 1, part 2 (in Japanese)

11/16 Love Suicides continued, plus (maybe) film version: Double Suicide

8a Tues 11/21
OUTLINE

Online 1: Meiji Changes

Online 2: Taisho Changes

Thurs 11/23 HOLIDAY

9a-b 11/28, 11/30: OUTLINE

Tues 11/28
Discussion

Thurs 11/30
Discussion

a) Lorie Brau, "The Women's Theater of Takarazuka," The Drama Review 34, no. 4 (Winter 1990), pp. 79-95. [click here]

b) optional: Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 1-24. [click here]

c) review Gail Bernstein "Introduction," in Recreating Japanese Women (pp. 6-19) [click here]

Video: Dream Girls [Library call #PN2926.T32 D73 2007]

11/28, 11/30: Takarazuka, Otokoyaku, and the "Mo-dan Garu"

a) "This is Not Sex": Web Essay on the Male Gaze

Click through this web essay on the male gaze and the positioning of women in advertising.

tv-tropes.org: this is the home page. Start here to understand what a "trope" is. Then click through the following two lists. For discussion on Thursday you will pick out at least five entries that seem pertinent to texts we've read so far in the course, and write out a brief explanation why.

tv-tropes.org: Gender and Sexuality Tropes

tv-tropes.org: Transgender Tropes

b) Gender in Rose of Versailles (Berusaiyu no Bara) by Ikeda Riyoko

a) Detailed summary of The Rose of Versailles manga

b ) The Rose of Versailles manga: book 3: scene 11

Alternative English Version: v. 6 ch. 37, p. 16-23

c) The Rose of Versailles manga book 3: scene 13

Alternative English Version: v. 6 ch. 39 p. 16-v.6 ch. 40, p. 14

For a full English translation, click here

Takarazuka 4.14.1991 Tsukigumi (Moon Troop) version actors:
Suzukaze Mayo as Oscar
Amami Yuki as Andre

Kabuki-za  1989 version actors:
Oscar: Nakamura Kotaro V (now Nakamura Fukusuke IX) b. 1960 (so 29 at the time), onnagata role specialist
http://www.kabuki21.com/fukusuke9.php
Andre: Ichikawa Ukon I (now Ichikawa Udanji III) b. 1963 (26 at the time), tachiyaku role specialist

Week 10

10a-b 12/5, 7: OUTLINE

Week 10 NO Discussion

December 5-7: Rokujô Revisited

a) Enchi Fumiko, Masks

Video: A Love for the Ages: The Tale of Shining Genji (Sennen no Koi: Hikaru Genji Monogatari)

***REVISED PAPER AND ALL MISSING DISCUSSION QUESTIONS DUE BY MIDNIGHT BY DROP BOX THURSDAY December 7th***

NOTE: if you are intending to turn the paper in by drop box, YOU MUST BRING THE ORIGINAL PAPER TO CLASS ON THURSDAY