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Affiliation
Academic Editor and Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), East Asian Languages & Cultures, SOAS University of London
Degree
PhD(The University of Iowa)

Other name(s) (e.g. nickname)
Byron-Gerteis Christopher
J-GLOBAL ID
201901004736581060
researchmap Member ID
B000355945

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I am an historian of Modern and Contemporary Japan. As a scholar I am particularly interested in the history of class and gender.

My first book, Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan (Harvard, 2010), is an interdisciplinary study of the forgotten history of wage-earning Japanese women who during the 1950s militantly contested the socialist labor movement's revival of many prewar notions of normative gender roles.

My second book, Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (Cornell 2021), examines the forces that shaped the political consciousness of Japanese youth who chose to engage in radical politics during the 1960s and 1970s. It unpacks how notions of class and gender shaped the discourses produced by, and for, young men and women of the 'Sixties Generation'.

I am also Founding Series Editor of the academic monograph series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, published in association with Bloomsbury and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Asian Studies, published by Cambridge University Press.

 


Major Books and Other Publications

  10

Papers

  22