Historical Studies Program and Asian Studies Program Present

Coed Revolution: The Gendered Dynamics of the Japanese New Left and Its Legacies

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In this talk based on her forthcoming book Chelsea Szendi Schieder will explore the meanings created by female participation in leftist campus-based protest in the 1960s, as young men and women attended universities together, battled police in the streets together, challenged political institutions, and paralyzed the higher education system. Young women involved in the student movement often imagined that it would offer them a rare chance to engage in activism away from gendered expectations and spaces, such as the home, and to participate as full equals with young men. And yet various dynamics—within the movement and in the interpretation of the movement within the mass media—often foreclosed such an imagination. Here she will explore the tensions within this history and in the historiography that often memorializes the New Left as primarily “male” to uncover gendered dynamics in the Japanese New Left, dynamics that help us understand postwar Japanese politics more generally and the legacies of radical protest in particular.

Chelsea Szendi Schieder, PhD, researches contemporary histories of activism and gender in Japan and works as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan.

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