Aging Forum Series II
Manipulating Images of Japanese Womanhood
at a time of Rapid Population Aging

Sponsored by:

The Asia Foundation

Time:

May 29, 2001, 3:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m

Place:

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan Map

Susan Orpett Long is a Professor of Anthropology at John Carrol University. She is the author of, "Family Change and the Life Course" (Cornell University East Asia Papers, 1987) and editor of, "Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self Community in Japan" (Cornell University East Asia Papers, 1999). She has published book chapters and articles on the topics of aging, health care, and gender in Japan. She served as the founding coordinator of John Carroll University's East Asian Studies program from 1987-95. Last year her book, "Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US: Practices and Policies". Susan Orpett Long, ed. London: Routledge, 2000. was published.

Sally Hastings is an associate Professor at the Department of History, Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1980. Her specialty is Modern Japan. Her current research focus is the creation of a women's public sphere in twentieth century Japan. Her teaching areas are East Asia, especially Japan and Korea. She is the co-editor of the U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement.

Speakers: Prof. Sally Hastings, Historian, Purdue University
Prof. Susan O. Long, Anthropologist, John Carroll University

materials:
 Profiles of Speakers
 Female Nurturance and Postindustrial Society by Susan Orpett Long
 How and When Filial Piety Became a Feminine Virtue by Sally Hastings
 Organizing Support for Foreign Workers in Japan by Apichai W. Shipper