ジェンダー研究/Gender Research

2007/01/12

旧『アラン』『月光(LUNA)』の愛読者の皆様へ

「百合通信」、「月光通信」関連インタビューのお願い
インタビュー形式: e-mail、または個人面談
(於:東京・名古屋・大阪・京都,2007年,夏)

(Seeking former users—or fans—of the "Yuri tsushin" and "Gekko tsushin" personal ad columns in Allan and Gekko [Luna] in the 1980s)

『アラン』の「百合通信」(「薔薇通信」、「その他」を含む)と『月光』の「月光通信」(欄名「フルーツ・バスケット」などを含む)を対象に研究をしていますが、当時「百合通信」や「月光通信」などへ投稿されたことのある方、投稿に返信をなさった方、またはその通信欄に関心をお持ちだった方を対象にインタビューさせていただきたいと思っています。

なお、性別、ジェンダー、セクシュアリティ(性的嗜好)、未婚・既婚などは一切問いませんが、よろしければ研究のためにそれらの事項に関してもお伺いしたいと思っています。もちろん、皆様のプライバシーは厳守いたします。

インタビューに興味をお持ちの方がいらっしゃいましたらメールで連絡していただけると幸いです。追って私の方からメールでアンケートをお送りし、ご都合がつく方々とは直接お会いしてお話を伺えればと思っています。

お問い合わせはこちらへメールをよろしくお願い致します。

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1970~80年代のウーマンリブ運動に参加された方へ

インタビュー(面談またはメール)に参加していただける方を募集しています
場所:東京・名古屋・京都・大阪
期間:2007年、夏

(Seeking women active in the Japanese women's lib movement in the 1970s and 80s for in-person or email interviews.)

1970~80年代にかけてのフェミニスト運動に関わられた皆様の経験と意見をお伺いしたく、日本語によるインタビューをさせていただければと思います。直接お会いしてのインタビューが無理な方々にも、Eメールによるインタビュー(アンケート形式)に参加していただければ幸いです。尚、皆様のプライバシーは保障いたします。

インタビューは1時間を予定しています。インタビューの内容は録音させていただき、皆様からの情報は博士論文の研究に使用させていただきたいと思っています。平成19年の夏の間に、東京・名古屋・京都・大阪で行う予定で、皆様のご都合のいい場所へお伺いします。

インタビューでは以下のような点を中心にお伺いしたいと思います。
・ フェミニスト運動に関わった経験
・ 過去、現在の人生におけるフェミニスト運動の影響
・ 70~80年代の海外におけるフェミニスト運動に対する考え、関わり等
・ 70~80年代の日本のレスビアン・コミュニティに対する考え、関わり等
・ 少女漫画(特に少年愛もの)に対する考え、関わり等

このインタビューでお伺いしたいのは皆様の女性解放運動への関わりです。また、全ての質問にお答えいただく必要もございません。

インタビューに参加していただける方、またインタビューや研究に関するご質問がおありの方はこちらまでご連絡ください。

ご協力、何卒よろしくお願いいたします。

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研究業績/PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

As of 2010年02月現在

For up-to-date information about my research, please visit my Academia.edu profile.



(下記のものはほとんど英語なんですが、その内容についてのお問い合わせのある方、どうぞ気軽にご連絡下さい。)

Edited Volumes
編著

Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker, eds. 2007. Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.
(Details in English and Japanese can be found here. 英語、日本語での詳細はこちらへどうぞ。)

James Welker and Lucetta Kam, eds. 2006. "Of Queer Import(s): Sexualities, Genders, and Rights in Asia." Special issue of Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 14 (November). URL:
http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue14_contents.htm


Journal Articles & Book Chapters
発表論文

James Welker. Forthcoming (2011). "Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shōjo Manga." Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Graphic Arts 6.

James Welker. 2010. "From The Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: Translated Texts and the Transfiguration of Gender and Sexuality in Shōjo Manga." Invited chapter in Girl Reading Girl in Japan, ed. Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley, 160-73. London: Routledge.

———. 2008. "Lilies of the Margin: Beautiful Boys and Lesbian Identities." Invited chapter in AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in the Asia-Pacific, eds. Fran Martin et al. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. 46-66.

James Welker and Lucetta Kam. 2006. "Introduction: Of Queer Import(s): Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia." Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 14 (November). URL: http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue14/introduction.htm

James Welker. 2006. "Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: Boys' Love as Girls' Love in Shōjo Manga." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31:3 (Spring): 841-70.

Received 2006 Crompton-Noll Award for Best Essay in Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Studies (Modern Language Association, GL/Q Caucus).



———. 2006. "Drawing Out Lesbians: Blurred Representations of Lesbian Desire in Shōjo Manga." Lesbian Voices, Canada and the World, ed. Subhash Chandra, New Delhi: Allied Publishers. 156-84. (Volume reviewed online here.)

Beverley Curran and James Welker. 2005. "From the Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian: Western Translations and Japanese Lesbian Identities." Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan, eds. Mark McLelland and Romit Dasgupta. London: Routledge. 65-80. (Volume reviewed online here and here.)

James Welker. 2005. "From the Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: Translating Lesbian Identities." Academia: Journal of the Nanzan Academic Society, Languages and Literatures 77 (January): 261-275.

———. 2004. "Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community." Japanstudien: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien 16: 119-144. Also available at URL: http://www.dijtokyo.org/doc/dij-jb16-welker.pdf (PDF)

———. 2002. "Toward a Pedagogy of Women's Liberation: Freire, the Patriarchy and the Foreign Language Classroom" The Journal of Engaged Pedagogy 2(1): 193-206.
日本語版は同号掲載:「女性解放への教育:フレイルと家父長制と外国語教育」(訳:佐藤洋子)


Published Translations
翻訳


Various Authors. Translation of six selections in Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker, eds. 2007. Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.

Gekkō (Luna). 2006. "Clandestine Wandering in the World of Women: An Interview with Freelance Journalist 'Y'" (Onna to onna ni iru machikado—hisomeyaka na hōkō), (from Gekkō 8 [October 1985]:14-18), trans. James Welker. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 12 (January). URL: http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue12/welker1.html

Noguchi Katsuzō. 2006. "Lesbian/Gay Studies" (Rezubian/gei sutadiizu), (from Dōseiai nyūmon [gei hen], ed. Fushimi Noriaki; Tokyo: Potto shuppan 2003), trans. Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 12 (January). URL: http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue12/katsuzo.html

Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker. 2006. "Celebrating Lesbian Sexuality: An Interview with Inoue Meimy, Editor of Japanese Lesbian Erotic Lifestyle Magazine Carmilla," trans. James Welker. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 12 (January). URL: http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue12/welker2.html


Book Reviews
書評


James Welker. 2009. Review of Barbara Summerhawk and Kimberley Hughes, eds., Sparkling Rain and Other Fiction from Japan of Women Who Love Women (Chicago: New Victoria, 2008). Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 20 (April). URL: http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue20/welker_review.htm.

ジェームズ・ウェルカー. 2008. 書評:ジム・ライカート、男同士—明治文学に於ける男色の表現(英語)、スタンフォード大学出版部 (Review of Jim Reichert, In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 2006). 論叢クィア (Queer journal) 1: 237-44.

James Welker. 2003. Review of Sharon Chalmers, Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan (London: Routledge, 2002). Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 9 (August). URL: http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue9/welker_review.html


Other Publications
その他

ジェームズ・ウェルカー. 2006. "ヤオイと百合通信とアメリカ人の僕" (Yaoi manga, lily communications, and American me). 月光 (Luna/Gekkō) 24 (December): 141-43.

Presentations
学会発表

"The Rise and Fall of "ūman ribu": Transnational Flows and the (Re-)Naming of Women's Liberation," paper to be presented in and organizer of the panel "Reframing Discourses of Women’s Liberation in 1950s–1970s Japan: Labor, the Family, and Reproduction," with Tomiko Yoda (Harvard), Brett de Bary (Cornell), Kathleen Uno (Temple), Yuki Senda (Musashi), and Setsu Shigematsu (UC Riverside), at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25–28 March.

"Twisting Terms: An Etymological Approach to Women’s Gender and Sexual Expression in 1970s-1980s Japan," lecture given as part of the Japan Workshop series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 28 January 2010.

James Welker. “Key Words: Unlocking Histories of Women’s Gender and Sexual Liberation in Late Shōwa Japan,” paper to be presented at Revisiting Postwar Japan as History: A Twenty Year Check-Up on the State of the Field, Institute for Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 31 May 2009.

ジェームズ・ウェルカー. “おんなの領域を書き直すーキーワードの語源についての一考察" (Rewriting women’s sphere: thoughts on the origins of keywords), paper presented at IGS Kenkyūkai 2008, Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, 29 January 2009.

James Welker. “Crossing the Line: The (Homo)Eroticized Male and Queer Female Identifications in Japan,”paper presented as part of invited panel, “Queer Approaches to Sexuality Studies in Japan and Korea,” with Evelyn Blackwood (chair; Purdue), John Cho (U Illinois), Karen Kelsky (U Illinois), Mark McLelland (U Michigan), and Vera Mackie (discussant; U Melbourne), at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 3-6 April 2008.

James Welker. “Surpassing the Love of Homo Men: Homo Magazines as a Queer Archive for Research on Women in Japan,” paper presented as part of the seminar “New Perspectives on Japanese Queer History,” with Mark McLelland (U Michigan), Jeffrey Angles (Western Michigan), Julia Bullock (Emory), and Todd Henry (Colorado State), at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 18 January.

James Welker. “Thinking Globally, Identifying Locally: Japanese Lesbian Community and Identify Formation in a Global Frame,” paper presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, St. Charles, Illinois, 28 June-1 July 2007.

Tari Itō; and MASA (performers); and Elise Edwards, Karen Kelsky, and James Welker. “Women Out/In Japan—Performance and Panel Discussion,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 9 April 2007. (Announcement; Photos)

———. "What Girls' Want with Homo Men: Liberatory Functions of Male Homosexuality for Female Readers in Japan," paper presented at Global Queeries: Sexualities, Globalities, Postcolonialities, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 10-13 May 2006.

Yamagami Chieko, Seyama Noriko (filmmakers); Sōko Miki, Doi Yumi (women’s lib activists); Karen Kelsky, Akiko Takeyama, and James Welker (U Illinois). "Viewing Feminist History in Japan," panel discussion at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA, 27 February 2006.

James Welker. "Reaching Out from the Margins: Queer Community Formation in an 'Aesthete' Magazine for Teenage Girls in Japan," paper presented at Sexualities, Genders, and Rights in Asia: 1st International Conference Of Asian Queer Studies, Bangkok, Thailand, 8-10 July 2005.

———. "『トーマの心臓』と『風と木の詩』の一考察—少年愛マンガをレズビアン・ナラティヴとして読む" (Thoughts on Tōma no shinzō and Kaze to ki no uta: Reading shōnen ai [boys' love] as lesbian narrative), talk given at Nanzan University Research Society, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Meeting, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, 10 November 2004.

James Welker and Beverley Curran. "From the Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian," paper presented at Asia Studies Association of Australia 15th Biennial Conference, National Convention Center, Canberra, Australia, 29 June-2 July 2004.

James Welker. "Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: Boys' Love as Girls' Love in Shōjo Manga," paper presented at Third International Convention of Asia Scholars, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, 19-22 August 2003.

———. "From the Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: Translating Sexual Identities," paper presented at AsiaPacifiQueer 3, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 8 December 2002.


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