I appear to have survived.

[ahorbinski]

I've just finished the rough draft of my final assignment for the semester; it's a strange little paper, but I like it, and I'm glad it's mostly finished. I've also nearly finished polishing the paper I wrote for my research seminar on modern Japanese social thought, in which I discuss and translate a chunk of the thought of the feminist historian Takamure Itsue. Before her historical turn Takamure was well-known as an anarcho-feminist, and I'm starting to be curious about this strand of the modern period in Japan and China--Kanno Suga and Itô Noe spring to mind in the anarcho-feminist category, as do He Zhen and Qiu Jin in China. Anyone know of any anarcho-feminists in modern Korea? 

Anyway, all three final assignments will be turned in tomorrow, and on Wednesday I head home to the East Coast. I'll definitely keep reading things over the holidays, as well as posting some lecture notes; I'm also planning to redo the tags on this blog, though I'm not sure what's the best system: by author? by discipline? And how to define each? Hmm.

At any rate, I hope everyone's hanging in there. 

Comments

[troisroyaumes]

Hm, what qualifies one as "anarcho-feminist"?

There are definitely a lot of feminist writers (in terms of literature), though I don't know about feminist scholars as such...I can ask my mother though.

[ahorbinski]

Well, that's a good question. Basically, if you say you're an anarchist, you're an anarchist, is my working definition. Kanno tried to assassinate the emperor; Itô edited a feminist journal and was later murdered in police custody. Takamure mostly argued with Marxist feminists, though her anarchist ideas informed her historical vision pretty deeply. Qiu Jin of course led a rebellion against the Qing government; I have no idea about He Zhen other than that at one point she hung out with Chaing Kai-shek.