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Norma Field: Japanese Women\u27s Pursuit of Global Justice
No full textNorma Field discusses a brief history of Japanese feminism, shares information from the International Women\u27s Tribunal of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and reviews Japanese women\u27s labor history. She explores Japanese women\u27s roles in society, particularly how they were affected by World War II.
A student of modern and contemporary Japanese literature and culture, Field has written about everything from Japanese novels to the moral and legal questions of crimes against women in World War II, and from the use of Japanese nationalist symbols to the integration of Koreans into Japanese society.
She is the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago.
Field\u27s current research interests include proletarian literature of the 1920s and 1930s and the role of the Communist Party, especially with respect to women and the arts. My Grandmother\u27s Land, a collection of her essays including several originally written in Japanese, was recently published to wide acclaim in Japan.
Field grew up in Tokyo and later attended Pitzer College in California, where she earned her bachelor\u27s degree in European studies. She then changed her focus to East Asian studies, and earned a master\u27s from Indiana University and a doctorate from Princeton University.
She came to the University of Chicago as an assistant professor in 1983 and was appointed professor in 1993. She is the author of The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor and From My Grandmother\u27s Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo
Norma Farley
No full textNorma began her missionary work on Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory in 1952 with Judith Stokes. They lived in a bark hut built from local materials for nearly a decade and took charge of the Anglican mission school at Angurugu that had about sixty children in the school also several Aboriginal men and women helped with the teaching. She combined a pastoral ministry with her teaching responsibilities. Norma went to Umbakumba in 1964 to teach, returning to Angurugu in 1965 to start a pre-school which began in a tent before moving to a old school and finally to a new school building. She stopped teaching in 1969 to give herself to a full-time pastoral ministry where she prepared religious instruction and Sunday school lessons. With the exception of ten weeks at Ngukurr in 1975 and Oenpelli in 1984 she spent thirty-three years of religious service entirely on Groote Eylandt. In 1985 the Angurugu people gave Norma an incredible farewell. She was made a member of the general division of the Order of Australia for service in the field of Aboriginal welfare in 1980.MissionaryMulticultural Service
The Bibliographic Concept of Work in Cataloguing and its Issues
No full textThis report explores the IFLA’s document Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). It discusses the notion of work in cataloguing as it was built since the 1950s, inasmuch this notion constitutes the conceptual framework for the proposal. Also, the entity-relationship database modeling (ERDM) system is described as far as such model provides to FRBR the operative elements that make it functional. ERDM gives to FRBR a user-centered approach as well. In its third chapter, the report tests the FRBR model through its application to a set of items belonging to the novel Rayuela, by Julio Cortázar, held at the Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. Finally, some critical issues are raised along with general conclusions regarding the functionality of the mode
Norma Coverdale, B.A.: the treatment of women in selected works of Henry de Montherlant
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to determine how women are treated in selectedworks of Henry de Montherlant. This is explored by examining their relationshipswith other women as well as with men. Inevitably, this leads to an analysis ofthe multifaceted area of love. Part I researches Montherlant's prose work and included in this section is the investigation of the importance of 'l'ordre male' to the author and the influence this exerts over his early prose work in the areas of tauromachy, war and sport, and where the male adherence to this concept leaves women. The 'syncretisme et alternance' which is central to Montherlant's thinking is explored in this section.Part 2 is concerned with Montherlant's theatre in which the psychological development of the main characters is of great importance. It is in this section that a comparative study is made of the influence of Mme. Elisabeth Zehrfuss' written contribution to La Reine morte. Her unpublished notes are set out in full in the Appendix. The thesis also draws on the unpublished correspondence between Henry de Montherlant and Elisabeth Zehrfuss between the years 1934 and 1945. An investigation is made as to whether or not there are any differences between the way women are treated in Montherlant's prose and in his theatre and the conclusion is drawn that there are
Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce: An Experimental Study
No full textRelying on the theory of representative bureaucracy—specifically, the notion of symbolic representation—this article examines whether varying the number of female public officials overseeing a local recycling program influences citizens’ (especially women's) willingness to cooperate with the government by recycling, thus coproducing important policy outcomes. Using a survey experiment in which the first names of public officials are manipulated, the authors find a clear pattern of increasing willingness on the part of women to coproduce when female names are more represented in the agency responsible for recycling, particularly with respect to the more difficult task of composting food waste. Overall, men in the experiment were less willing to coproduce across all measures and less responsive to the gender balance of names. These findings have important implications for the theory of representative bureaucracy and for efforts to promote the coproduction of public services.This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Riccucci, Norma M., Van Ryzin, Gregg G. & Li, Huafang. (2015). Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce: An Experimental Study. Public Administration Review, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/puar.12401. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Peer reviewe
Sage Field
No full textPastel drawing depicting a rural landscape with sage and mountains in the background
Staging Norma
No full textThe sculpture Norma was created in the USA in the 1940s in the field of tension between what something is and what something should be. Around eight decades later, the Israeli choreographer and director Saar Magal thematises Norma in her dance piece 10 Odd Emotions. Stefanie Hampel first looks at the materialisation of what was considered ‘normal’ at the time and analyses the sculptures Norma and Normman by Abram Belskie and Robert Latou Dickinson from 1943. Against the backdrop of Saar Magal's piece 10 Odd Emotions, the author explores the questions of what deconstructive, media-specific potential theatre has here and how human bodies are (re)arranged on stage.PublishedIm Spannungsfeld des Normalen – zwischen dem, wie etwas ist, und dem, wie etwas sein soll – entsteht in den USA der 1940er Jahre die Skulptur Norma. Rund acht Jahrzehnte später thematisiert die israelische Choreografin und Regisseurin Saar Magal Norma in ihrem Tanzstück 10 Odd Emotions. Stefanie Hampel befasst sich zunächst mit der Materialisierung dessen, was damals als „normal“ gelten sollte und analysiert die Plastiken Norma und Normman von Abram Belskie und Robert Latou Dickinson aus dem Jahr 1943. Vor dem Hintergrund von Saar Magals Stück 10 Odd Emotions geht die Autorin den Fragen nach, welches dekonstruktive, medienspezifische Potenzial dem Theater hier zukommt und wie menschliche Körper auf der Bühne (neu) angeordnet werden
From my grandmother's bedside: sketches of postwar Tokyo
No full textFrom My Grandmother's Bedside is an experiment in genre, a moving and evocative reflection on contemporary Japan, human desire, family relations, life, and death. Norma Field, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I., and author of the acclaimed In the Realm of a Dying Emperor , returned to Japan in 1995 to tend to her slowly dying grandmother, who had been rendered speechless by multiple strokes. What she finds - both in the memories of her childhood in her grandmother's household and in the altered face of postmodern Japan - forms the substance of her narrative that transcends both memoir and essay to reveal, through crafted fragments, a refraction of the whole of Japan.Having spent her childhood in Japan and her adulthood in the United States, Field speaks from the position of one who straddles two worlds. Her testimony is highly personal, her voice is intimate, her observations are keen and clear. She juxtaposes details from daily life - conversations overheard on the subway; arguments between her mother and aunts; the struggle to feed, bathe, and care for her grandmother - with observations on the political and social changes that have transformed Japan. She shows how the belated coming to terms with the war and continuing avoidance of the same are intimately related to the look and feel of Japanese society today. She gently folds back the complicated layers of blame and responsibility for the war, touching in the process on subjects as diverse as the effects of the atomic bomb, comfort women, biracial/bicultural families, the farewells of Kamikaze pilots, and the dehumanizing effects of Japan's postwar economic boom. A recurrent theme is the observation of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war. From My Grandmother's Bedside is also a contemplation of the many facets of language: the kinds of language with which her grandmother's illness has been negotiated, the wordless language her grandmother speaks, her own relationship to these languages. Through it all runs the realization that the personal and the political are perpetually entangled, that past and present converge and overlap
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