Anna Vittinghoff (BA, MSc)
Thesis title: Yonezu Tomoko, ūman ribu and the disability movement - Radical intersectional feminism in Japan in the 1970s
PhD supervisors:
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor in 'Pre-modern East Asian History', 'Modern East Asian History' and 'Politics and the Economy in Japan'
Research summary
Intersectional feminism, the ūman ribu movement, the disability movement, student movement, reproductive politics and eugenics in Japan from the 1960s to today
Project activity
Voices in Japanese Studies Podcast
@voicesinjs on Twitter
Current project grants
The Great Britain Sasakawa Scholarship
The Japan Foundation Endowment Committee Grant
The John Crump Studentship
Organiser
Postgraduate Gender Research Network Scotland - "Intersections", Univeristy of Edinburgh, 2019
Postgraduate Gender Research Network Scotland - "Engendering 2020+1", online, 2021
Papers delivered
International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics - "Sexual Revolutions - Sexual Politics", University of Ghent, 2018
The Global Conference of Women and Gender - "Intersectionality: Understanding Women’s Lives and Resistance in the Past and Present", Christopher Newport University, 2019
Joint East Asian Studies Conference 2019, University of Edinburgh
Third Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies, 2020
The Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference, 2021
Book chapter contribution following presenting at the symposium 'Embodied and socially constructed? Dis/ability in media, law, and history' (publication date TBA), 2021