Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asia

About Mire Koikari

Mire Koikari is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii Manoa. Her research has focused on issues involving race gender and empire in particular the intertwined formation of American and Japanese feminisms against the backdrop of militarism and expansionism in Asia and the Pacific in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her teaching has focused on recasting the history of women and feminism in the transnational contexts of race nation military and empire illuminating the varied and often surprising ways in which women racial minorities immigrants and colonized subjects negotiated with dominant dynamics of power. Her previous publications include Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the US Occupation of Japan (2008) which examines the meanings and consequence of 'feminist reform' during the US occupation of mainland Japan. For her research on gender and militarism in Cold War Okinawa which has culminated in the present volume she has received a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Asia Program and another from the Japan Foundation. She is currently working on her new project which analyzes the process of remasculinization and remilitarization of Japan following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami and nuclear disasters.