Full-Day Schedule for October 12th

 

 

Chair and Moderator: Amanda Seaman, University of Massachusetts
at Amherst


This panel will explore representations of voluntary and involuntary bodily functions in writings by contemporary Japanese women. Panelists will draw connections between the daily practices of eating and bathing and attitudes towards the body politic and social relations. The Involuntary practice of ovulation will be examined for its potential role in experiencing thinking. Are food and eating sites for sensual perfection? Is purification a means of liberating female sexuality? Does the image of ovulation allow for a more sensual and less abstract mode of thinking? The connections between these intimate sensual processes and external social and political understanding will be explored in this panel.

Panel 16
2013
Saturday, October 12th
11:00 AM

Narrating Self and Supper: Food in the Works of Ogawa Yoko

Amanda Seaman, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

RCC 202

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Ovulation as a Mode of Thinking and Letting Go: Tawada Yoko's The Unfertilized Egg

Robin L. Tierney, Bridgewater State College

RCC 202

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Washing Outside the Bath: The Impure Girl's Body in Uchida Shungiku's Early Manga and Fiction

Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College

RCC 202

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM