Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan: The Longitudinal Study of Kobe Womens Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019, Phase One

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Claire MAREE is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the Asia institute University of Melbourne. Her research spans the areas of critical language studies gender/sexuality and language studies media studies and queer studies. Major publications include On-kotoba Ron (On On-kotoba language of queens) (Seidosha 2013); Hatsuwasha no gengo sotoratej toshite no negoshishon ki (Negotiation as a Linguistic Strategy of Speakers) (Hituzi Shobo 2007). Claire has published chapters in collected volumes on Japanese language and gender pragmatics and queer studies. She contributes articles to journals such as The Asia-Pacific Journal Media international Australia Nihon Joseigakkai-shi Women's Studies intersections Gendai Shis and Sexualities.Kaori OKANO is Professor in Asian Studies/Japanese at La Trobe University. She researches in the field of the sociology and anthropology of inequality and education in Japan and East Asia including multiculturalism indigenous education ethnography of growing up and local activism (e.g. NPOs and NGOs). Her key publications include Rethinking Japanese Studies (with Sugimoto Y. 2017) Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan (2016 Routledge) Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan (co-ed. 2011 Routledge)) Young Women in Japan: Transitions to Adulthood (2009) Education in Contemporary Japan (with M. Tsuchiya CUP 1999) and School to Work Transition in Japan (1993).