Courses Regularly Taught

WS360: Pacific and Asian Women in HI
WS460: Feminism, Nation, and Empire
WS462: Asian Women

Research Areas

My research/teaching interests have primarily focused on re-examining European, American, and Japanese feminisms from critical perspectives involving race, nation, and empire. I have been analyzing various ways in which feminist discourses and practices sometimes resist and other times participate in and restrengthen racism, nationalism, and imperialism, and considering meanings and consequences of politics of "women's emancipation" with all of its contradictions and ironies.

Representative Publications

Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the US Occupation of Japan, 1945 - 1952 (book length manuscript; under review)

Re-thinking Gender and Power in the US Occupation of Japan, 1945 - 1952. (1999) Gender and History. Vol. 11(2).

Exporting Democracy?: American Women and Gender Reform in US-Occupied Japan, 1945 - 1952. (2002) Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies Vol. 23 (1).