PUBLIC LECTURE:
  Looking at Japan through Masculinity: From Salarymen to Herbivores 
		
Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:00 - Webb Lecture Theatre, Geography Building UWA
		
A lecture by Romit Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, UWA.

This public lecture looks at the tremendous social, cultural, and
economic changes Japan has undergone over the six decades since the end
of World War Two, not through conventional frameworks, but through a
lens of gender, specifically masculinity. It draws upon Dr Dasgupta’s
recently published book, 'Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting
Masculinity' (Routledge, 2012) to look at the ways in which the
salaryman came to embody Japanese national identity from the 1950s until
the 1990s, and how, even in the recessionary post-1990s context, the
discourse of salaryman masculinity continues to be a visible presence on
the social landscape.

Book a seat online
(unreserved):http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/dasgupta
		
URL: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/dasgupta
		
For more information:
  Institute of Advanced Studies
  ias@uwa.edu.au
  6488 1340

Starts       : Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:00
Ends         : Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:00
		
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Last Updated : Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:40