Friday, January 9, 2004

2:30–4:30 p.m.

56. Surviving Total War and Foreign Occupation: Family and Children in the Reconstruction of Japan, 1945–52
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony D

Chair: Eiko Sakaguchi, University of Maryland at College Park
Papers:

Democratizing Boys and Girls: Father Flanagan in Occupied Japan
Joanne Izbicki, Connecticut College

Sporting Womanhood: The Rise and Fall of All-Women Professional Baseball in Occupied Japan
Sayuri Shimizu, Michigan State University

Kitchen Politics: Oku Mumeo and the Genesis of the Housewives’ League in Occupied Japan
Marlene J. Mayo, University of Maryland at College Park


Comment: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University