2025年度の活動報告

The 2025 Gender Diversity Study Group held five study sessions.

 

The first study group was held on May 29, inviting Professor Moe Yamauchi (part-time lecturer at Otsuma Women's University and others) to give a lecture on the theme "The 'Showing Subject' Enabled by Sexual Selfies—A Visual Culture Study Surrounding Girls with Secret Accounts." Based on the results of Dr. Yamauchi's doctoral dissertation, which was obtained through interviews and participatory observations of so-called 'secret account girls' who post selfies with sexual images on social media, we examine from a media historical perspective the way these women actively present the 'body as an image' through selfies. The analysis also focused on the connection to modern oshi-katsu.

 

The 2nd workshop was held on October 31, with Professor Taichi Inoue (translator) invited to give a presentation on the relationship and history of veganism, ecology, and feminist thought. He gave a multifaceted lecture on the thought, history, and practice of veganism, covering topics such as animal protection by feminists before the first wave of feminism, second-wave feminism and vegetarianism, and its relationship with ecological feminism.

 

The third study meeting was held online on November 17. We invited Professor Barbara Rothmüller (Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna, Senior Scientist and Chief Researcher) to give a lecture on "Sexual Double Standards: Pathologizing Sexual Desire in Heterosexual Women and LGBTIQA+ Minorities." Focusing on the persistent traditional sexual script in which men, women, and gender minorities are evaluated differently even at the same level of sexual desire, the report introduced findings on sexual double standards in Austria's sociocultural context and analyzed what sexual behaviors are expected of sexual minorities.

 

The 4th workshop will be held on March 17, 2026, with Professor Atsuko Kameda (Professor Emeritus at Jumonji Gakuen Women's University) presenting a lecture titled "Awareness of Violence Against Women! Who Are the Women Who Created the DV Prevention Law!" We asked Dr. Atsuko Kameda about the background leading up to the creation of the DVD "From AKK Women's Shelter to the Enactment of the DV Prevention Law," the creation of the shelter, and the process by which the law was enacted, and screened the DVD. This was the result of planning since August, and the screening was held in March.

 

The 5th study group was held on March 21 with the publication "Rereading from Feminism: Basic Papers on Intersectionality" (co-edited with Fumika Sato Yuki Senda. Keio University Press) Based on Kant and Arendt, the book offers perspectives on the commonality of 'experience,' and throughout the book, issues are raised about the aporia of recent liberalism and feminism. It confirms the current state of gender theory in recent years and the challenges of gender theory since post-structuralism. This was a project I had been developing since November, and after extensive discussions via email and other means, a face-to-face study session was held in March.