Open Lecture Co-hosted by the Center for Gender Studies and the COE
Program

Professor Terrell Carver will visit ICU for an open lecture on January
10th co-hosted by CGS and the COE program. Known as a researcher of
Marx and his philosophy, He's written a number of books and and his
latest work, Men in Political Theory, published in 2005, builds on
feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in
political philosophy, such as Plato, Machiavelli and Engels, by turning
the 'gender lens' on to the representation of men in widely studies
texts.

Time and Place：10：10 a.m. ～12：40 p.m., Thursday, January 18th（held as
an open lecture in GPFC 'Social Stratification'）
Venue：本館265号室
Title：'Gendering Peace & Security: The "Man" Question'
Lecturer：Professor Terrell Carver　(Professor of Politics at the
University of Bristole, UK, Visiting Professor at Senshu University)

Lecture followed by a Q&A; session. No simultaneous interpretation
provided. Those who wish to participate are advised to read the
material provided by Professor Carver prior to his lecture. The
material available at CGS.

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A Lecture Co-hosted by CGS and the Institute for the Study of
Christianity and Culture

Rev. Yuri Horie will visit ICU on February 2 for a lecture co-hosted by
CGS and the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture
(ICC). As a lesbian pastor and the representative of The Ecumenical
Community for Queer Activism, she has been actively engaged in issues
of homosexuality, especially lesbianism, both within and outside the
church.

In this lecture, Rev. Horie will focus on the various issues concerning
homosexuality and the church, as well as the common, discriminative
hotbeds that create homophobia and cause sexual harassment.

Title: Questioning the Church and its ‘Sacredness’: Criticism against
the Church from a Lesbian Perspective
Date and Hour: 1:00 p.m. ~ 3:00 p.m., Friday, February 2
Venue: International Christian University Honkan Rm. 215
Co-hosted by: CGS and ICC
Sponsored by: COE Program

Lecture followed by a Q&A; session. No simultaneous interpretation
provided. For more information, please contact CGS at 0422-33-3448 or
send us an e-mail at cgs@icu.ac.jp.

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Mabel AU
a former CAW Coordinator

Introduction
Historically, the labour movement was largely developed along with the process of industrialization. The labour movement grew stronger through the daily struggle against unfair working conditions. Following a similar logic, women workers in Asia should already have gained substantial strength to defend their rights. Particularly, the capital had been intensively involved women in industrialization in Asia since the end of WWII. However there were many obstacles hindering the organisation of women workers into a strong collective.

In this article, I am going to present the situation of women workers in Asia and the difficulties they faced in their efforts in organisation. Then, I will further illustrate the impact of globalisation on women workers. Finally, I would like to argue that a strong labour movement is possible only if we put more effort into organising the unorganized, particularly the women workers.

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Trackbacks (0) | November 23, 2006, 04:22 PM

Ling LIN
Graduate Student, Beijing Normal University

The first encounter: curiosity
Before I received education under the guidance of my advisor, Prof. Zhengxinrong, I had never known that she was a feminist. Even after that, I still couldn’t imagine what deep influence her involvement with feminism would have on me. Four years have passed since my first encounter with feminism. I am now greatly interested in this field: Like my adviser, I have also become a feminist.
The past four years have of course been a slow process. First, introduced to a number of studies concerning women, I learned to discuss the issues surrounding the status of women. In addition, my co-workers and I had a formal interview with Prof. Zhengxinrong to learn about her experiences in women’s studies. However, it wasn’t until 2002, when I attended a Chinese women’s studies seminar supported by the Ford Foundation in Guangzhou, that I began to see where my future was headed.

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Trackbacks (0) | November 17, 2006, 04:16 PM

Eiji TAKETATSU
Undergraduate Student, Toyo University

On May 23rd 2006, Ms. Kanako Otsuji, a member of the Osaka prefectural assembly who publicly came out as a lesbian last year, gave a lecture entitled “Towards a Society that Celebrates Diversity” at the International Christian University.
I participated in the lecture as an interested party, that is as a homosexual male. However, the lecture was basically comprehensible also for heterosexuals, who do not have much knowledge of LGBT.

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Trackbacks (0) | November 03, 2006, 06:18 PM

Aiko IMAGAWA
Undergraduate student, ICU

On May 8, 2006, Ms Junko Mitsuhashi gave a talk entitled Sexuality in Transgenderism as part of the ‘Approaches to Gender Studies’ course at ICU. Ms. Mitsuhashi is a cross-dresser as well as a gender studies researcher specializing in the social history of sexuality. The talk was a powerful and comprehensive presentation on the reality of the Shinjuku cross-dressing community that did not belie her claim regarding her own candidness.

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Trackbacks (0) | November 03, 2006, 02:31 PM

Midori ITO
Executive Committee Member, Women's Union Tokyo

The full text of this article is not available yet. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Yuji KATO
Graduate Student, ICU

The full text of this article is not available yet. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Trackbacks (0) | November 02, 2006, 04:21 PM