User:JoerdisW/Group EAP2020

This is the sandbox space for our class First, we want to change the chronological order of the passage! Second, we want to correct wrong and delete plagiarized passages. Third, we want to add new information relating to the Hän Honour, her retirement and chair position in a non-profit as well as some more information about her student times

Academic career In 1982, Ueno authored The Study of the 'Sexy Girl' (セクシィ・ギャルの大研究) and Reading the Housewife Debates (主婦論争を読む), texts that would be referred to as "The Flagbearers of 1980's Feminism".[1] Her work investigated the relationship between the "Women's Lib" (ウーマン・リブ) movement of the 1960s and Women's Liberation Movement (女性解放運動) of the 1970s.[1] The primary perspective of these works was the application of structuralist and semiotic theory to sociology in order to investigate gender-centric mechanisms in society. This public debate coincided with the prominence of other scholars such as Asada Akira, Nakazawa Shin'ichi, and Yomota Inuhiko, a period known as the New Academicism Boom (ニュー・アカデミズム・ブーム).[1]

After dropping out of her doctoral courses, Ueno worked in a marketing systems think tank and produced many works on the debates of consumption and society.[10]

From 1979 to 1989, she was a Lecturer and later Associate Professor at the Heian Women's College. She was an Associate Professor and Professor at the Kyoto Seika University at the Department of Humanities from 1989 to 1994.[1] In 1993, after being rejected from many other universities as a strident feminist scholar, she received an invitation from the University of Tokyo.[6]

She is a special guest professor at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University and a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.[11] She retired from this position in order to take the role of Chief Director of the Women's Action Network (WAN),[12][13] an organization designed to connect and introduce feminists from different backgrounds.[14] The Women's Action Network website hosts news, essays, popular media reviews, and promotes certain merchandise.[12]

In 1994, Ueno received the Suntory Arts and Sciences award for her work, The Rise and Fall of the Modern Family.[1]