Yoriko Ishida

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Yoriko Ishida is Professor of English at National Institute of Technology, Oshima College, Japan. She completed her doctoral work at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences of Nara Women’s University. She obtained her Ph.D. about study on African American literature and culture from the viewpoint of gender consciousness. She published her completed study as "Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity: The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings" through Peter Lang Publishing in New York, USA. Besides, she translated Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings into Japanese and has also published several books written in Japanese on history, literature, and gender studies. After completing her study on African American culture, several times she has been granted research findings from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japanese government for her current research on gender formation and consciousness in the shipping world and maritime history. Her main field is gender consciousness and gender formation in the maritime world.

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What is Gender Equality? : A General Review of Gender Politics and Gendered Bodies in Sports

The aim of this paper is to analyze the connections among the concepts of sex, gender, and bodies... more

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Women at Sea beyond Gender Politics

This book deconstructs femininity, masculinity, and sexuality in bodies of several specific seafa... more This book deconstructs femininity, masculinity, and sexuality in bodies of several specific seafaring women described in historical discourses from the view point of feminist thoughts, aiming to clarify gender consciousness in maritime culture. Since ancient times, the maritime world has been regarded as extremely gendered and considered a male domain. Why have “ships” and “the sea” been connected with masculinity? Is it true that maritime culture has consisted only of males? Why have women been regarded as inferior in the maritime world? These questions about the stereotype that the maritime world has been governed only by males are raised in this book, and it analyzes the mechanisms and preconceptions behind gender bias in the maritime world. It is logical to propose a causalrelationship between the marginalization of women in maritime culture and the gender ideology of women’s confined bodies. When ships can be considered as maritime mobile instruments, it is meaningful to focus ...

Realization of Gender Equality in the Workplace Feminist Perspectives of a WLB

Education, Language and Sociology Research

It has been a long time since people focused on the term “work-life balance” (WLB). It is an exag... more It has been a long time since people focused on the term “work-life balance” (WLB). It is an exaggeration to say that a WLB is in vogue like gender equality. Also, in academic fields in Japan, Europe, and the United States, WLB studies have been vigorously discussed, and a number of papers have been published since the 21st century. A WLB policy has been misconstrued as applying only to women because the ideology of the sexual division of work has not been totally dispelled; many women work away from home compared to the old days. This gives a false impression that if working women can easily take maternity leave or childcare leave, many women will have an opportunity to work, which appears to result in gender equality in society. In this interpretation, it has been considered important that company quality should be improved to make maternity leave or childcare leave available to female employees. This paper traces the historical context and previous studies about appearance of the...

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Was Ida Lewis a Womanly, or a Manly, Woman? The Ambivalence of a Woman Lighthouse Keeper’s Gender Identity Between Masculinity and Femininity

International Journal of Social Science Studies

It is obvious that Darling could be mentioned as a most brave woman in doing the heavy labor invo... more It is obvious that Darling could be mentioned as a most brave woman in doing the heavy labor involved in a lighthouse keeping and even saving shipwrecked people, but it is more particularly worth noting that Ida Lewis’s efforts saved the lives of at least eighteen people over a period of twenty-five years. This paper focuses on Ida Lewis, the most famous woman lighthouse keeper in the United States, and analyzes the gender identity of women lighthouse keepers. most studies that discuss women lighthouse keepers point out that, behind women’s being appointed as official lighthouse keepers in the nineteenth-century United States, the labor of lighthouse keepers could essentially share common features with the form of femininity that was emphasized in the Victorian era. However, when analyzing from the viewpoint of gender ideology, I cannot help raising questions regarding women lighthouse keepers as examples of mere femininity simply because the labor forms were analogous with househol...

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Body and Gender Expressed by the Cross-Dressing of Hannah Snell in Eighteenth-century Naval Culture in The Female Soldier; Or, the Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship

Hannah Snell is arguably considered the most famous woman who embarked on warships as a marine in... more Hannah Snell is arguably considered the most famous woman who embarked on warships as a marine in men's clothes. Astonishingly, she was able to be involved with missions as a seaman for more than four years without anyone discovering her true identity. Although her experiences were portrayed in some magazines, such as Gentlemen's Magazine and Scots Magazine, and books published in Holland and England, her life entered history as fact through The Female Soldier; Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell by Robert Walker, a London newspaper printer. This paper addresses Walker's first edition as a primary source because it was written after hearing directly from Hanna Snell, which means it can be recognized as being closer to the truth than the expanded edition. I examine the significance of female cross-dressing aboard male-dominated naval ships by analyzing the body of Hannah Snell as depicted in The Female Soldier.

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Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity

New Approaches, 2011

What is Gender Equality? : A General Review of Gender Politics and Gendered Bodies in Sports

The aim of this paper is to analyze the connections among the concepts of sex, gender, and bodies... more

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Women at Sea beyond Gender Politics