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Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 31 (2023) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: How Japanese Society Has Changed against Sexual Crimes and Sexual Violence How Japanese Society Has Changed against Sexual Crimes and Sexual Violence: The Path to a Society Where Perpetrators are Held Accountable, and Victims’ Feelings and Thoughts are Accepted and Considered（Facilitator）  KITANAKA Chisato The Reality of Sexual Violence as Seen from Support Sites SUTO Yumiko June 2023 Penal Code Amendment: Will Sexual Acts without Consent be  Punished? NAKAYAMA  Junko Media and Sexual Violence: Victims, Media Reporting, and Surrounding Background YOSHINAGA  Mami Articles: Female Researchers in Japan Discuss Attitudes toward Research Careers: A Survey of Interviews with Participants in the Higher Position Development Program HIGUMA Ai KAWANO Yoshiyuki The Use of Gender in the Spread o

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 21 (2013) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS What Is “Beauty” for “Women”? : Order, Capitalization or the Change of Norms The “Beauty” and “Body” of a Woman Depicted in Modern Japanese Literary Works MINASHITA Kiriu (Rieko Tanaka) Resistance against Beauty Hierarchy: What Women Professional Wrestlers Suggest AIBA Keiko The Necessity for the Education to Protect Children against the Commercialization of Sexuality KANEKO Yumiko How to Survive Harassment Based on Appearance: Suffering and Dealing with NISHIKURA Miki Discourses on Migrant Women not Called “Japayuki-san”: An Analysis of Magazine Articles from the Late 1980’s to the Early 1990’s OHNO Sera Published by The Women’s Studies Association of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 20 (2012) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: A Critical Reconsideration on the Meaning of Motherhood and Feminism Concerned Parties: Second Wave Feminist Consciousness and Present-mindedness KANOU Mikiyo Articles: Talking Feminism with Doma: Life Story Practice with a Woman from Yolma, Nepal SATO Seika The Medicalization of Infant-Feeding and Gender: The Depute over the Contamination of Mother’s Milk with Dioxin” and the Practical Knowledge of Midwives MURATA Yasuko “The Theory of Nutrition” and Feminism of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi in Late Nineteenth-century America: Her Interpretation of Menstruation and Anemia YOKOYAMA Miwa Research Note: The Stories of a Princess/ a Prince: A Study on La FillettePevolutionnaireUtena YAGI Chieko Published by The Women’s Studies Association of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 19 (2011) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: Can Social Policy Be Neutral to Diverse Lifestyles? The Fairness of Life Styles and the Modern Family SENDA Yuki Two Worlds of “Work-Life Balance” HAGIWALA Kumiko An Analysis of the Deterioration of the Child Allowance Policy in Japan from the Perspective of Gender KITA Akemi Articles: Constructing the Relationship between Transgenders and the Sexual Majority: From the Stories of Transgender Group Organizers ISHI Yukari Care Workers and Gendered Jobs: A Study of the Mechanisms of Men’s Superiority at Work in Women’s Jobs SHIMAHARA Mie The Transformation in Awareness among Disabled Women during the Disabled Persons’ Movement of the 1970s: Focus on “Fujin-bu (Women’s Division)” of Kanagawa Joint Association of Aoi-shiba NIKAIDO Yuko Research Note: The Hierarchical Rel

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 18 (2010) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: Critical Reconsideration of the Meaning of Motherhood and Feminism Waiting for the Academia to Change Society with the Cooperation of Interest Groups AKABANE Kayoko The Course of Women’s Studies over the Last Thirty Years and the Changes in Society EHARA Yumiko Women’s Studies Related to Women’s Facilities or Facilities for a Gender Equal Society NAITO Kazumi “Feminism” and “Women’s Studies” as the Issue of Interactions ARAKI Naho Articles: Disability Movement’s Critique on Reproductive Technology through the Feminist Perspective HAYASHI Chiaki A Role-Playing body : An Analysis of the Representation of “Being Something” YAGI Chieko Domestic Violence (DV) Cases in Custody Decisions in Swedish Courts: In “the Child’s Best Interest” and for “Gender Equality

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 17 (2009) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: Querying Poverty and Labor from a Gender Perspective A Single Woman: Speaking as “the Other Woman” in Feminism or Engaging in “the Other Woman” in Myself KURITA Ryouko Single Mothers: A Discussion with the Women’s Studies Association of Japan AKAISHI Chieko Women’s Studies: Its Needs to Develop its Own Interdisciplinary Foundation TANAKA Kazuko Articles: An Analysis of the Increase and the Variety of Local Women Legislators in Japan: Career Paths of Women’s Candidates in Local Elections OKI Naoko Complicated Gender Factors in the Enactment of the Spouse Visa in the Japanese 1982 Immigration law: A Case of Counter Action by The Association for Multi-Cultural Families (AMF) KOBAYASHI Junko Analysis of Experienced Employees in Women’s Centers: Their Ability and its Int

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 16 (2008) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: Gender Equality in the Gap-Widening Society Is Male-dominated Employment in Japan Going out of Style? KAIZUMA Keiko The Contemporary Gender Equality Policy in Japan from the 3rd Koizumi Cabinet to Fukuda’s MINAGAWA Masumi Issues of Gender Equality in Present Day Aomori: The Expanding Gap Between Haves and Have-nots in Society and the Gender Equality Policy OSANAI Sekiko Articles: Before and After the Enactment of the Gender-equality Act in Ube: Examination of the Citizen-Participant-Model in Local Autonomy KOSHIBA Hisako Why is Rape “Antragsdelikte” in Japan?: The Implication of “Victim’s Interests” on the Discourse about Criminal Law TAKASHIMA Chise The Order of the Visual Field “ Showing Peculiarity in Sex Categories: Interviews with People Identified as Having “Gender Identi

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 15 (2007) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: Queering the Backlash: A Critical Perspective on the Binary Sex/Gender System The Backlash and the Reconstruction of Dualist Sex/Gender Ideology INOUE Teruko What does “the Neutralization of Man” Mean? KAZAMA Takashi Deciphering the Multiple Phobias of Backlash Discourses MAREE Claire Queers and “Prioritization” Tanaka Ray Queering the Backlash towards a Critical Thinking of Our Inner Phobias KANAI Yoshiko Articles: Possibilities for Women’s Involvement in the New Public Sphere: Towards a Society that Recognizes Interdependence HORI Kumi Research Note: What Kind of Approach is “Queering”? IINO Yuriko To Speak about Pain, to Listen to Pain, or Pain as a Relationship: Rethinking “A-bomb Drawings by Survivors” JEONG Yujin Published by The Women’s Studies Association of

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 14 (2006) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: Power and Trauma Connected With Gender Violence and Trauma: What I Learned from Clinical Experience with Victims of Sexual and Domestic Violence MIYAJI Naoko Against Structural Violence OGOSHI Aiko “Violence” and Education from a Feminist Perspective KIMURA Ryoko Articles: Prostitution and Sexual Freedom SHIMOJI Masaki The Origin of Second-Wave Feminism in the UK: Equal Pay Demands from the Ruskin Conference TOMINAGA Takahiro The Mourning “Mothers”: Problems of the Feminist Subject and a Fetus MATSUURA Yumiko Published by The Women’s Studies Association of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

Journal of Women’s Studies Association of Japan WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 13 (2005) Edited by the Editorial Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan CONTENTS Special Issue: Feminism and War The Difficulties Surrounding Female Soldiers SATO Fumika “Women’s Participation in the Mosaic Battlefront”and the Violence of Reorganized Masculinity KAIZUMA Keiko From the Subject of Violence to the Agency of Non-Violence OKANO Yayo Articles: Homophobia in Contemporary Gothic: Proximity and Homogeneity of Terror IKOMA Natsumi The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in England: the Invisibility of Female “Homo-Sexuality” and Its Historical Background NODA Keiko Ordinary Woman Living between “Sex Workers” and “Sexual Slaves”: Cases of Thai Women in the Global Sex Industry AOYAMA Kaoru The Connection between “Haisho” Theory and Birth Control Theory: the Eugenics of Isoo Abe HAYASHI Yoko A Comparison of Women which Results from the Diversity of Female Life Courses: Discour