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'That's really nonsense!': The gendered 'common sense' of knowledge production in postwar Japan.

In 1971, a young woman attempted to enter graduate school at Kyoto University. Her undergraduate advisor attempted to dissuade her. This 'incident' prompted a heated dispute that rallied student activists to support the young woman, dubbed R-ko, and channeled the anger of female students at this eli...

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Published in:Japan Forum Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 608 - 633
Main Author: Schieder, Chelsea
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec 2021
Subjects:
Japan
Kyoto Daigaku
Common sense
Implicit bias
Activists
Young women
Elitism in education
Paradox
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