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Keiko Aiba,  Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Global and Transcultural Studies
Faculty of International Studies
Meiji Gakuin University
1518 Kamikurata, Tostuka-ku
Yokohama 244-8539
Japan
Phone:81-45-863-2225
E-mail: aiba@k.meijigakuin.ac.jp

Academic Interests
Gender and Body, Gender at Work, Violence against Women


Publications

(Articles on Gender and Body)

2011gChapter 19 Japanese Women Professional Wrestlers and Body Imagehin Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity Are Making A Difference, edited by Kumiko Fujimura- Fanselow. The Feminist Press.

2010. "Shintai katudo kara jyosei kyogisha ga ukeru eikyo: jyosi puroresura no keiken" (The influence of Physical Activities on Women Athletes: Experiences of Women Professional Wrestlers) Kokusai gaku kenkyu 38:27-44.

2008. gEngi to shiteno jyosi puroresu to jenda no choetsuh (Womenfs Professional Wrestling as Performance and Transgression of Gender) Kokusai gaku kenkyu 34:1-20.

2008. gTatanaku gino to jiko boei: jyosi puroresura no shintai to jendah (Combat Skills and Self-Defense: Gender and the Bodies of Pro-Women Wrestlers) Jenda & sekushuaritu 3:3-22.

2007. "Henyo sita sintai heno jiko ninshiki: joshi puroresura no sintai to genda" (Self Perceptions Toward Transformed Bodies: Bodies of Professional Women Wrestlers and Gender) Supotsuto genda kenkyu 5:4-17.


(Others Articles)
1996 "America shakai gaku ni okeru seibetu shokuiki bunri kenkyu no rirontekiwakugumi to kongo no hoko" (Occupational Gender Segregation Studies in American Sociology: A Review of Theoretical Frameworks and Future Directions) U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 20:100-115

1997 Aiba, Keiko and Raymond A. Jussaume, Jr. "Refreshing Beers and Caring Skin: The Construction of Gender in Japanese Television Commercials" Journal of National Women's Education Center 1:23-31

1998 "Unrecognized Inequality: Structure and Effects of Job-Level Sex Segregation in the Japanese Workplace" Pp.333-350 in Gendai nihon no puburikku firosofi (Public Philosophy in Modern Japan) edited by Yamawaki, Naoshi, Mari Osawa, Wataru Omori and Ryuichiro Matsubara. Shinseisha.

1998 "Shigoto no naiteki hoshu no jenda sa to sono kozo"(Gender Gap in Internal Rewards and Reward Structure: Analyses in the Japanese Workplace) Annual Review of The Japanese Association of Labor Sociology 9:127-147

2001. Aiba, Keiko and Amy Wharton. "Job-Level Sex Composition and the Sex Pay Gap in a Large Japanese Firm." Sociological Perspectives 44:67-87.

2001. "Sexual Harassment in the University: Factors Influencing Perception." Women's Studies 9:66-83.


(Book Reviews)
Yuko Ogasawara. 1998. Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Work and Occupations, vol. 27, no.1, February 2000

Minako Konno. 2000. OL no sozo-im sekai to shiteno jenda (Creation of OL: Gender as the world of meaning) Tokyo: Keiso shobo.
Nihon rodo shakai gakkai nenpo. (Annual review of the Japanese Association of Labor Sociology) vol.12, 2002

Mary C. Brinton. (ed.) 2001. Women's Working Lives in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Contemporary Sociology, Vol.32, No. 2, March 2003

Murao, Yumiko 2003. Rodo shijo to genda--koyo rodo ni okeru danjyo fukohei kaisho ni mukete (Labor Market and Gender: The Aim for Solving Gener Unfairness in Employment) Toyokan shuppann sha. The Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Working Women 45, 2004.

Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (ed.) Bad Girls of Japan. Palgrave MacMillan, 2005
Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 2, October 2006

Noriko, Asaumi. 2006. Jyosei jimushoku no kyaria kakudai to shokuba soshiki (Career Development of Women's Clerical Work and Work Organization) Nihon keizai hyoronsha.
Shakaigaku hyoron (Japanese Sociological Review) 58, (2), 2007.


Professional Presentation

Presentation Before 2000

June 2000
"Daigaku ni okeru sekushuaru harasumento: nishiki ni eikyo wo ataeru yoso" (Sexual harassment in the university: factors influencing perception) at the meeting of the Women's Studies Association of Japan

May 2004
"Genda ron no genzai" (The Frontier of Gender Studies) at Lectures of "Genda de kangaeru onna to otoko no sekai" (Women's and Men's World Considerd by Gender) in Meiji Gakuin daigaku kokai koza (Extension Lecture Course of Meiji Gakuin University 2004)

November 2004
"Transformed Bodies and Gender: a New Perspective based on a Study of Professional Japanese Women Wrestlers" at the meeting of Anthropology of Japan in Japan

June 2005
"Transformed Bodies and Gender: a New Perspective Based on a Study of Professional Japanese Women Wrestlers" at Women's World 2005, 9th international interdisciplinary Congress on Women

June 2006
"Henyo shiteyuku jyoshi resura no shintai to genda" (Transforming bodies of women wrestlers and gender) at the meeting of Women's Studies Association of Japan

July 2006
"Puroresu wo suru shintai heno manazashi: nihon no jyoshi puroresura no shintai to genda" (Perceptions toward wrestling bodies: Japanese professional women wrestlers and gender) at the meeting of Japan Society for Sport and Gender Studies

October 2006
"Puroresu wo suru shintai heno manazashi: nihon no jyoshi puroresura no shintai to genda" (Perceptions toward wrestling bodies: Japanese professional women wrestlers and gender) at the meeting of The Japan Sociological Society

November 2006
"Japanese Professional Women Wrestlersf Perceptions Toward Their Bodies"
at the meeting of North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

June 2007
"Self-Perceptions Toward Transformed Bodies: Professional Japanese Women Wrestlers and Gender "
at the meeting of Asian Studies Conference Japan

November 2007
"Transformed Bodies and Gender: Self-Perceptions of Japanese Women Pro-Wrestlers"
at the meeting of Anthropology of Japan in Japan

July 2008
gCombat Skills and Self-Defense: Gender and the bodies of Japanese Women Pro Wrestlersh
at Womenfs Worlds 2008, (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

November 2008
gCombat Skills and Self-Defense: Gender and the bodies of Japanese Women Pro Wrestlersh
at NASSS (North American Sociology of Sports and Society), (Curtis Hotel, Denver, CO., USA)

July 2009
gJyoshi puroresura no kega to itamih (Injuries and Pains of Japanese Women Professional Wrestlers)
at the meeting of Japan Society for Sport and Gender Studies

May 2012 gSelf-Perceptions Toward Transformed Bodies: Bodies of Professional Women Wrestlers and Genderh

8th European Feminist Research Conference

 

November 2012 gEmpowered and Challenged Bodies: Japanese Women Professional Wrestlers' Embodied Experiencesh American Anthropological Association 111th Annual Meeting


Short Description of Main Courses
* Introduction to Sociology at GTS
* Introductory Seminar at GTS
* Gender and Society at GTS (see the details at GTS HP)
* Gender Studies at IS (department of International Studies)

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