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The U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal (number 52) features the following scholarly works:
- Differing Conceptions of “Voluntary Motherhood”: Yamakawa Kikue’s Birth Strike and Ishimoto Shizue’s Eugenic Feminism
by Sujin Lee
- “Madonnas,” “Assassins,” and “Girls”: How Female Politicians Respond to Media Labels Reflecting Party Leader Strategy
by Alisa Gaunder
- A Challenge to Reproductive Futurism: Queer Families and Nonhuman Companionships in Ueda Sayuri’s The Ocean Chronicles
by Kazue Harada
- Adult Computer Games and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence: Responding to Gamergate from Japan
by Patrick W. Galbraith
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The purpose of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal is to exchange scholarship on women and gender between the U.S., Japan and other countries, to enlarge the base of information available in Japan on the status of American women as well as women in other countries, to disseminate information on Japanese women to the U.S. and other countries, and to stimulate the comparative study of women’s issues.
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