Gender in Japanese Culture

Research Sources & Tips

I. Course Reserves

Check out the Course Reserves.

II. Facts and Overviews

Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural production. / edited by Haruo Shirane.
PL788.4.G43 E58 208

Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime.
edited by Mark W. MacWilliam; foreword by Frederik l. Schodt.
NC1764.5.J3 J37 2008

Living Japan: Essays on Everyday Life in Contemporary Japan.
ed. by Harumi Kimura; translated by Haruko Miyazaki, Yuriko Takahashi.
DS821 .L58 2009

Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture.
edited by Yoshio Sugimoto.
DS822.5 .C365 2009

III. Books on Various Topics

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

Artists, Anime Masters, Literary Authors:

Murasaki Shikibu

Isozaki Arata

Hayao Miyazaki

Topics:

(anime or manga) and cultur**

samurai

(shōjo or girl*) and su: japan* (limit to books)

Otaku

Broader Contexts:

Mass media -- Japan.

Popular culture -- Japan.

Subculture -- Japan.

Tips: 1. Or and ( ) to search any or all of the words; 2. cultur** searches for culture, cultural, etc.

Advance Keyword Search

On the topic of Japanese film and culture:

Material Type:

Path of Discovery in the Catalog

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

Title	*Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime* / edited by Mark W. MacWilliams; foreword by Frederik L. Schodt.
Publisher	Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, c2008
Subject	Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan.
	Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism.
	Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
Added Author	Macwilliams, Mark Wheeler, 1952-

Appendix I. Writing and Citing

Movie Reviews vs Film Criticism (Timothy J. Corrigan.)

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

A Short Guide to Writing about Literature by Sylvan Barnet. Ref: PE1479.C7 B3

Writing about Literature (handout from Writing Center at UNC.)

MLA Style (for citing sources)

IV. More Specific and Current Discussions

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

Expand your search into more databases and from various perspectives

3. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

4. Art History and Literature

5. Film/Television, Mass Media, History , and Women's Studies

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

6. GenderWatch

7. Bibliography of Asian Studies

8. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Current Scholarship on a Topic

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

Two examples:

Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan (review). Monumenta Nipponica, Spring 2010

Gendering Modern Japanese History (review). The Journal of Japanese Studies, Winter 2007.

A Few Notable Journals:

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

Mechademia

Monumenta Nipponica

Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique

C. More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read.

For example:

Ogi, Fusami. "Female Subjectivity and Shoujo (girls) Manga (Japanese comics): Shoujo in Ladies' Comics and Young Ladies' Comics." Journal of Popular Culture 36: 4 (2003), 780-803.
References: 32 Times Cited: 3

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 32 references that Ogi cited for her article and, in turn, 3 articles that cited hers. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

D. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

E. Request Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

V. Popular Press

A. Current:

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)

Factiva (more international coverage)

B. Historical

Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)