Institution: | Andrea GERMER is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo). She obtained her Ph.D. from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, with a thesis on the historian Takamure Itsue (published in 2003). Her main areas of publication and research are feminist historiography and theory, gender and nation, and womens magazines in wartime Japan and Germany. Together with Vera Mackie and Ulrike Wöhr, she is currently co-editing Gender and the Nation State in Modern Japan, which is forthcoming from Routledge. |