Barbara Molony
Walter E. Schmidt, S.J., Professor of History, Santa Clara University, CA 95053
July 2014
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Education:
1982Harvard University, Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages.
1973Harvard University, A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia.
1971Harvard University (Radcliffe College), A.B. in History, cum laude.
Teaching Positions:
1981-Assistant Professor to Professor, Santa Clara University. Chair, History Department (2005-2011). Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program (1996-2004). Co-director (1982-88) International Business Program
1978-79, 1980-81 Instructor in History, Wellesley College.
1973-75, 1977-81 Tutor in East Asian Studies and Teaching Fellow, Harvard University.
Grants, Awards, and Distinctions:
2012-13, 2014President, SCU Faculty Senate
2011-16Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
2009-10President, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association
2010Awarded Walter E. Schmidt, S.J. endowed chair
2010Bayma Award for Scholarship, College of Arts and Sciences, Santa Clara University
2007Faculty Senate Professor, Santa Clara University
2005Ford Foundation grant for Berkshire Conf. speakers from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, Middle East
2005Northeast Asia Council grant for Japan-related speakers at Berkshire Conference
2005“Madrina Award” in Recognition of Distinguished Service, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
2005Sisterhood is Powerful Award, Santa Clara University
2004President’s Special Recognition Award, Santa Clara University
2002Ford Foundation grant for Berkshire Conf. speakers from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, Middle East.
2002 Northeast Asia Council grant for Korea-related speakers at Berkshire Conference
2002Northeast Asia Council grant for Japan-related speakers at Berkshire Conference
2001Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
1998-9Northeast Asia Council grant for Japan-related speakers at Berkshire Conference
1997College of Arts and Sciences Intellectual Community grant for workshop on gender in Japanese history
1988-9Social Science Research Council grant to Japan
1989 Association for Asian Studies, Northeast Asia Council, research grant to Japan
1985Santa Clara University research grant to Japan
1984NEH Summer Research grant to Japan
1983Santa Clara University research grant to Japan
1979-80 Harvard University Japan Institute grant
1975-6 Fulbright award to Japan
1971-5National Defense Foreign Language grants
Printed Books and On-line Publications
In progress: Ichikawa Fusae: A Political Biography. Co-authored with K. Molony
In progress: What is Feminism? Transnational Activisms in the “Second Wave”, proposal in preparation for edited collection, co-edited with Jennifer Nelson
Forthcoming (2015): Gender in Modern East Asia, co-authored with Janet Theiss and Hyaeweol Choi. Westview Press.
2014-Associate Editor, “Women and Modern Empires,” Women and Social Movements, International--1840 to Present. On-line.
2011Modern East Asia: An Integrated History. Co-authored with Jonathan Lipman and Michael Robinson. Laurence King (UK) and Pearson (US).
2008 Asia’s New Mothers: CraftingGender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies. Co-edited with Emiko Ochiai. London, UK: Global Oriental (now Brill)
2007Civilizations Past and Present, 12th edition. Co-authored with Edgar, Gordon, Hackett, Jewsbury. New York: Longman.
2005Civilization Past and Present, 11th edition. Co-authored with Brummett, Edgar, Hackett, Jewsbury. New York: Longman.
2005Gendering Modern Japanese History. Co-edited with Kathleen Uno. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press. Revised and reissued in 2008.
1990Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
1984“Introduction” and “Afterword” to Facing Two Ways, by Ishimoto Shidzue. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press.
1979Proceedings of the Tokyo Symposium on Women. Tokyo: International Group for the Study of Women. Co-edited with Merry I. White.
Articles and Chapters in Books
In progress: “Gender and the Politicsof Morality in Japan: A Comparison of the Pre-Suffrage Interwar Era with the Post-Suffrage 1970s,” in Anne R. Epstein and Rachel G. Fuchs, eds., Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective,
Forthcoming: “Feminisms in Southeast Asia,” in Nancy Naples, Maithree Wickramasinghe, and Angela Wong Wai Ching, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Oxford UK: Blackwell.
Forthcoming: “Feminisms in Northeast Asia,” in Nancy Naples, Maithree Wickramasinghe, and Angela Wong Wai Ching, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Oxford UK: Blackwell.
2011“From ‘Mothers of Humanity’ to ‘Assisting the Emperor’: Gendered Belonging in the Wartime Rhetoric of Japanese Feminist Ichikawa Fusae,” Pacific Historical Review 80.1 (February 2011): 1-27.
2010“Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Feminisms in Japan, 1900-2008,” in Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, eds. Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activisms. London: Routledge
2009“Citizenship and Suffrage in Interwar Japan,” revised and anthologized in Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, eds., Women in Asia: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies. London, Routledge.
2009“Women’s Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925,” revised and anthologized in Karen Offen, ed., Globalizing Feminisms before 1945. London, Routledge.
2008 “Modernity, Gender, and the Empire,” IIAS Newsletter 46
2007 “Hiratsuka Haruko (Raichō),” in Bonnie G. Smith, Encyclopedia of Women in World History. New York: Oxford University Press
2007“Gender, Citizenship, and Dress in Modernizing Japan,” in Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas. London, UK: Sussex Academic Press.
2005“Why Should a Feminist Care about What Goes on Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain? The Imperial Succession Issue as a Metaphor for Women’s Rights,” in Amy Thernstrom, ed., Japanese Women: Lineage and Legacies. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2005“The Quest for Women's Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Japan,” in Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, eds. Gendering Modern Japanese History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press.
2005“Ichikawa Fusae and Japan’s Prewar Women’s Suffrage Movement,” in Gordon Daniels and Hiroko Tomida, eds., Women in Japanese History. London, UK: Global Oriental.
2005“Women’s Rights and the Japanese State, 1880 to 1925,” in Gail Bernstein, Kate Nakai, and Andrew Gordon, eds., Public Spheres, Private Lives. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center Pubs.
2004“Citizenship and Suffrage in Interwar Japan,” in Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, eds., Women’s Suffrage in Asia. London, UK: Routledge.
2004“Editor’s Overview: Technology, Governance, and Public Policy,” STS NEXUS 4.2
2003“Frameworks of Gender: Feminism and Nationalism in Modern Asia,” in Teresa Meade and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds., Companion to Gender History. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
2002“Historical Perspectives on Technology and Society” STS NEXUS 2.2
2001“Technology and Identity,” STS NEXUS 1.2
2000 “Women’s Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925,” Pacific Historical Review 69.4 (Nov. 2000). Won Ridge Article Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
1999 “The State and Women in Modern Japan: Feminist Discourses in the Meiji and Taisho Eras,” in Janet Hunter, ed., State and People in the Twentieth Century. London: London School of Economics.
1998“Koen ni yosete: Hitotsu no juyo na rekishiteki shunkan” (On the Lecture by Beate Gordon: An important historical moment), Nichibei Josei Jyanaru 24.
1998Encyclopedia entries for Ichikawa Fusae, Hiratsuka Raicho, and Yoshioka Yayoi in James L.Huffman, ed., Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism. New York: Garland Press.
1995“Japan's 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and the Changing Discourse on Gender,” Signs 20.2 (Winter 1995).
1993“Equality vs. Difference: The Japanese Debate over Motherhood Protection, 1915-1950,” in Janet Hunter, ed., Japanese Women Working. London: Routledge.
1991“Activism among Women in the Taisho Cotton Textile Industry,” in Gail Lee Bernstein, ed., Recreating Japanese Women. Berkeley, University of California Press.
1990“Japan's Strategic Investment in High Technology in Colonial Korea, 1925-1945,” Journal of Modern Korean Studies 4.78-93.
1989“Innovation and Business Strategy in the Prewar Chemical Industry,” in Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa, eds., Japanese Management in Historical Perspective. Tokyo: U of Tokyo Press.
1989“Noguchi Jun and Nitchitsu: Colonial Investment Strategy of a High Technology Enterprise,” in William D. Wray, ed., Managing Japanese Enterprise: Cases from Japan's Prewar Experience. Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University.
1980“Women and Wartime Employment,” Feminist Japan 2:79-83.
Editorial:
2004Guest Editor, STS NEXUS 2.4 Technology, Governance, and Public Policy
2002Guest Editor, STS NEXUS, 2.2 Historical Perspectives on Technology and Society
1996-Associate Editor, US-Japan Women’s Journal
1995-2003 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Pacific Affairs
Reviews:
Forthcoming: Review of Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement before World War II, by Taeko Shibahara, in Pacific Historical Review.
2013Review essay of A Place in Public: Women’s Rights in Meiji Japan, by Marnie S. Anderson; Reforming Japan: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period, by Elizabeth Dorn Lublin; and Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan, by Mara Patessio, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 73.1
2013Review of Sex in Japan’s Globalization, 1870-1930, by Bill Mihalopoulos, in Monumenta Nipponica 68.1.
2012Review of Recreating Japanese Men, Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, American Historical Review 117.5: 1570-1572.
2011Review of Gender Struggles: Wage-Earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan, by Christopher Gerteis, in American Historical Review 116.2: 433-434.
2010Review of Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, ed. Anne Walthall, in Journal of World History 21.4: 721-724.
2010 Review of Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, by Mire Koikari, in Contemporary Sociology 39.2: 174-5.
2005Review of Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s Industrialising Economy, by Janet Hunter, in Monumenta Nipponica, 60.1.
2003Review of Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan, by Timothy S. George, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77.
2003Review of The People’s Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995 by Kenneth J. Ruoff, in Pacific Historical Review.
2002Review of Gambling with Virtue by Nancy Rosenberger, in Japan Forum 14.1
2001Review of Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan by Helene Bowen Raddeker, in Japan Forum.
2001Review of Schreiben als Befreiung: Autobiographische Romane und Erzaehlungen von Autorinnen der Proletarischen Literaturbewegung Japans by Hilaria Goessmann, in Journal of Japanese Studies 27.1
1998Review of Broken Silence:Voices of Japanese Feminism by Sandra Buckley, Journal of Asian Studies 57.2.
1998 Review of Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937 by Vera Mackie, in Monumenta Nipponica.
1997Review of A New Woman of Japan: A Political Biography of Katō Shidzue, by Helen M. Hopper, in Journal of Japanese Studies (Winter).
1997Review of Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future, ed. by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda; and Contemporary Portraits of Japanese Women, by Yukiko Tanaka, in NWSA Journal 9.1 .
1996Review of Textiles and Industrial Transition in Japan, by Dennis L. McNamara, Monumenta Nipponica 51
1995Review of Technology Change and Female Labour in Japan, ed. by Masanori Nakamura, in Journal of Japanese Studies 21.2.
1994Review of Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan, by Glenda Roberts, in Journal of Asian Studies 53.4
1994Review of Onna da kara: Weil ich eine Frau bin, by Ruth Linhart; and Japan-Ein Land der Frauen? ed. by Elisabeth Gössmann, in Journal of Japanese Studies 20.1 (Winter 1994).
1993-4 Review of The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman, by Kaneko Fumiko; Tsuda Umeko and Women's Education in Japan, by Barbara Rose; and Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan, ed. by Chieko Irie Mulhern, in Pacific Affairs 66.4 (Winter 1994).
1991Review of The Japanese and Western Science, by Masao Watanabe, in Science 253 (7/26/91)
1991Review of Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan, by E. Patricia Tsurumi, in Journal of Japanese Studies (Sum 1991).
1991Review of The Japanese Business Community and National Trade Policy, by W. Miles Fletcher III, in Pacific Affairs (Spr 1991).
1991Review of The Formation of Science in Japan, by James R. Bartholomew, in American Historical Review 96.2 (Apr 1991).
1990Review of Nakae Ushikichi in China, by Joshua A. Fogel, in Monumenta Nipponica 45.4(Winter)
1988Review of Power Revolution in the Industrialization of Japan, by Ryoshin Minami,in Journal of Economic History (Fall 1988).
1985Review of Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciouness in Modern Japan, by Sharon L. Sievers; Haruko's World, by Gail Lee Bernstein; and Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment, by Takie S. Lebra, in Signs 10.4 (1985).
1984Review of Humanisierung der Arbeitswelt, by Willy Krauss; and Japans unvollkommene Vollbeschäftigung, by Angelika Ernst, in Pacific Affairs 56.
1984Review of Die Blume am Arbeitsplatz, by Renate Herold; and The Hidden Sun: Women of Modern Japan, by Dorothy Robins-Mowry, in Journal of Asian Studies 43.
Selected Papers:
8/15“Gender and the Politics of Morality in Japan,” paper to be presented at International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Jinan, People’s Republic of China
7/14“Extravagance is the Enemy! Gender, Propaganda, and Dress in World War II Japan,” paper presented at Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, Perth
5/14Workshop on “What is Feminism? Varieties of Activism in the Second Wave,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Ontario.
4/14Roundtable: “What is Transnational History?” presentation at European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria.
4/14 “Japanese Feminist Transnationalisms,” paper presented at European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria.
8/13“Transnationalisms in Twentieth-Century Japan,” paper presented at International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Sheffield, UK.
4/13 “Feminism in Japanese Historiography: A Meta-Historical Comment,” keynote address at conference on “Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese feminisms,” Emory University.
8/10“From ‘Mothers of Humanity’ to ‘Assisting the Emperor’: Gendered Belonging in the Wartime Rhetoric of Japanese Feminist Ichikawa Fusae” Presidential Address, AHA-PCB.
7/08“Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms in Japan from 1900 to 2008,” ASAA Meeting, Melbourne, Australia
10/06“The Politics of Dress in Modernizing Japan,” at Loyola University, Chicago.
4/05“Why Should a Feminist Care about What Goes on Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain? The Imperial Succession Issue as a Metaphor for Women’s Rights,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
4/05“Middle-Class Tokyo Women and Subjectivity.” Harvard University.
9/03“Citizenship and Suffrage in Interwar Japan,” keynote address at international conference on “Japanese Women, 1868-1945,” at University of Edinburgh, Scotland
11/02“Hung Liu and Women’s Issues in China,” talk presented at de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University.
10/02“Historiography, Gender, and Modern Japan: A Comment,” at the International Symposium on Historical Consciousness, Historiography, and Modern Japan, Banff, Alberta.
6/02“Writing a Successful Proposal for the Next Berks,” Workshop on conference proposal writing, presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs, CT
7/00“Die politischen Rechte der japanischen Frauen in der Zeit vor 1945,” paper presented at Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany.
11/99“Equal Employment Opportunity as a Woman’s Human Right,” paper presented at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.
8/99“Suffragism, Feminism, and Women’s Rights in Japan,” paper presented at the AHA-PCB Conference
6/99Moderator and presenter (Japan), Roundtable on “Autonomy and Institution: Women’s Studies in International Perspective,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
5/99“Women’s Rights in Meiji and Taisho Japan,” paper presented at Harvard University Symposium on Modern Japanese History in Honor of Professor Albert Craig.
7/98“The State and Women in Modern Japan,” paper presented at Symposium on “Japan: State and People in the Twentieth Century,” London School of Economics.
8/95“Maternalism and Sexuality in Japanese Political Discourse, 1915-1950,” paper presented at AHA-PCB
1/95 “Gender and the Politics of Morality in the Parliamentary Career of Ichikawa Fusae,” paper presented at annual AHA meeting.
5/94 “Jogaku, Joken: Women's Education and Women's Rights in Meiji Japan,” paper presented at Meiji Studies Conference, Harvard University.
4/94 “The Political Uses of Gender Discourse: Maternalism and Sexuality,” paper presented at the Regional Seminar on Japan, UC Berkeley.
6/93 “Women and Industrialization: Japan,” paper presented at Berkshire Conference on the History of Women.
8/91 “Equality vs. Difference: The Japanese Debate over Motherhood Protection,” paper presented at AHA-PCB
4/91 “STOP THE CORRUPTION!: Gender and the Politics of Morality in the Career of Ichikawa Fusae,” presented at annual Association for Asian Studies meeting.
10/90“In the Pacific Interest”, keynote address presented at Willamette College eponymous conference.
4/90 “The 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and the Changing Discourse on Gender, presented at annual AAS meeting.
3/90 “The Katei and Women Textile Workers in Historical Perspective,” presented at the International Symposium, Division of Civilization Studies, National Museum of Ethnography, Osaka, Japan.
1/88 “Innovation and Business Strategy in the Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry,” presented at Business History Symposium, Hakone, Japan.
10/87 “From Farm to Factory: Taisho Women in the Textile Industry, presented at WC-AAS.
3/84“Japan's Strategic Investment in High Technology in Korea,” presented at annual AAS meeting
11/83 “Bureaucrats and Businessmen: Government-Business Relations in the Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry,” presented at the Washington and Southeast Regional Seminar on Japan.
4/78“The Ephemeral Work Force: The Employment of Japanese Women,” presented at annual AAS meeting.
Translations:
1985Translation of “Labor Management in Japan” in Japanese Yearbook on Business History1985, pp. 32-54.
1984Translation of “The Retreat from Diversification and the Desire for Specialization in Konoike:Late Meiji to Early Showa,” in Japanese Yearbook on Business History 1984, pp.104-131.
Professional Service:
2014-Member of Editorial Board for Brill Publishers series, “The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives”
2014Manuscript referee, Signs
2014Manuscript referee, International Labor and Working Class History
2013Manuscript referee, Cambridge University Press
2013Manuscript referee, Bloomsbury Academic Press
2013-6Nominating Committee, Western Association of Women Historians
2012-4Nominating Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
2012 External reviewer for tenure application, University of Florida
2012Manuscript referee, Japan Review (Kyoto, Japan)
2011External reviewer for dissertation, Wollongong University, NSW Australia
2011 External reviewer for program review, Whitman College History Department
2011 External reviewer for tenure application, Smith College
2011Manuscript referee, Asia Center Publications, Harvard University
2011 Manuscript referee, ERAS Journal (Australia)
2011Manuscript referee, Palgrave MacMillan
2011Manuscript referee, University of Hawaii Press
2011Manuscript referee, Pacific Historical Review
2010Manuscript referee, Association for Asian Studies Publications
2010Manuscript referee, Journal of Women’s History
2010Manuscript referee, Signs
2010Manuscript referee, Pacific Historical Review
2010Manuscript referee, U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal
2010External reviewer for Program Review, IES Center, Beijing
2009-10 President, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association
2009Program Committee Chair, Western Association of Women Historians
2009Manuscript referee, Pacific Historical Review