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Asian Studies Lecture Series

Asian Studies Lecture Series

Asian Studies Lecture Series Presents: Akido Takenaka

Akido Takenaka sports a short gray haircut, purple, red and black scarf, and glasses.

The relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women’s rights shifted in the politically conservative climate of the Cold War decades. With a focus on the concept of bosei, generally understood to be the “motherly” qualities that are supposedly inherent to women, the talk will examine how popular perceptions of the mother, the child, and the mother-child