Week 1

April 1:
OUTLINE

April 3:
OUTLINE

Week 1b Discussion

April 1: Introduction to Concepts of Gender

Video intro to distinction between Gender and Biological Sex

April 3: The Heian Marriage System

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

Weeks 2-3

April 8:
OUTLINE

April 10:
OUTLINE

Week 2b Discussion

April 15:
OUTLINE

Online lecture1

April 17:
OUTLINE

Week 3b Discussion

April 8: The Kagerô Diary

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

April 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]

April 15: The Woman's Weapon: Jealousy and Possession                     

            a) Tale of Genji chapters 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 pp. 55-224

April 17: More Marriage Politics and Discussion of Heian Ideals  

a) Tale of Genji Chapters 12, 13, 14, 17 pp. 225-319

Week 4

April 22:
OUTLINE

Discussion Forum

April 24:
OUTLINE

Online Lecture 1: Political Changes & Women

Online Lecture 2: Economic Changes & Women

April 22: 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 (around pp. 37-38)

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.

April 24: Kamakura Period Changes for Women

a) Hitomi Tonomura, "Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society" [click here]  See online lectures at left for some of the basic points of this reading.

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 5-6

April 29:
OUTLINE

May 1:
OUTLINE

Week 5b Discussion

May 6:
OUTLINE

May 8:
OUTLINE

Week 6b Discussion

 ***PAPER ONE DUE IN CLASS THURSDAY MAY 1***

April 29 & May 1: Idealized and Demonized Feminine in Noh Theater: Tale of Genji vs. Aoi no Ue

a) Aoi no Ue[English only, with introduction to Noh)

See "photo story" for images

b) Nonomiya: The Wildwood Shrine[English], translation by Royall Tyler, Japanese Nō Dramas (pp. 205-214)

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)

Video: The Tradition of Performing Arts in Japan, excerpts from Aoi no Ue

May 6: Battle of the Sexes: Representation in Noh and Kyogen

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

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

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

d) Chigiriki synopsis [click here]

e) The Baby's Mother (Hoshigahaha) [click here]

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

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

For week 6a lecture on representation of feminine and masculine in Noh:

h) synopsis of Noh play Yashima

i) synopsis of Noh play Izutsu

May 8 : Gender Stereotypes in Noh and Kyogen

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

Weeks 7-8a

May 13:
OUTLINE

May 15:
OUTLINE

May 15/Week 7b Discussion

May 20:
OUTLINE

 EDO/TOKUGAWA PERIOD (1600-1868)
 

*****PAPER 2 DUE TUESDAY MAY 20th IN CLASS*****

May 13: 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

May 15 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)

May 20 Izayoi Seishin

a) Kawatake Mokuami, The Love of Izayoi and Seishin (trans. Frank T. Motofuji) part 1, part 2

b) Kabuki 21 biography of Kawatake Mokuami (scroll down past chronology; note that the Zoe Kinkaid biography dates to 1925); Wikipedia biography of Kawatake Mokuami

Video: excerpts from Izayoi Seishin

WEEKS 8b-9

May 22:
OUTLINE

Online 1: Meiji Changes

Online 2:Taisho Changes

Week 8b: discussion

May 27, 29: OUTLINE

Thursday Week 9b
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]

May 27, 29: Takarazuka, Otokoyaku, and the "Mo-dan Garu"

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

Click through this web essay to learn about 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 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

Week 10

June 3, 5: OUTLINE

Week 10b Discussion

June 3, 5: 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 DUE IN CLASS THURSDAY JUNE 5th***