Ueno, Chizuko (1948–)
Ueno, Chizuko (1948–)
Japanese feminist and educator. Born in 1948 in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
Influenced by Michael Foucault and Claude Levi-Strauss, became a post-modernist; published Sekushi Gyaru no Daikenkyu (A Study of Sexy Girls, 1982), followed by her translation of The Challenge of Marxist Feminism (1983); was a lecturer, then associate professor, at Heian Women's College (1979–89); was an associate professor, then professor, Department of Humanities, Kyoto Seika University (1989–94); became professor of sociology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo (1995); writings include Patriarchy and Capitalism (1990), the Suntory prizewinning Kindai Kazoku no Seiritsu to Shuen (The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Modern Family, 1994), (ed.) Risky Business: A Dangerous Relationship between Women and Capitalism (1994), and Nationalism and Gender (1998).
See also Women in World History.