Santa Clara University

Faculty & Staff - Barbara Molony

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Barbara Molony

Professor
O'Connor Hall 15
tel (408)554-4433
fax (408)554-2181
bmolony@scu.edu

Chair, Department of History

Education

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1982
M.A. Harvard University, 1973
B.A. Harvard University, 1971

Teaching Positions

1981 to present Professor, Santa Clara University 1996 to 2004 Director, Program for the Study of Women and Gender

1982 to 1988 Co-director, Program for the Study of Women and Gender International Business Program Member, International Programs Advisory Board

1978 to 1979 and 1980 to 1981 Instructor in History, Wellesley College.

1973 to 1975 and 1977 to 81  Tutor in East Asian Studies and Teaching Fellow, Harvard

Selected Publications

Books

Forthcoming Ichikawa Fusae: A Political Biography. Co-authored with K. Molony (under contract Stanford University Press).

Forthcoming Gendering Modern Japanese History. Co-edited with Kathleen Uno (under contract with Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University).

1990 Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry. Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University.

1984 "Introduction" and "Afterword" to a new edition of Facing Two Ways, by Ishimoto Shidzue. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1979 Proceedings of the Tokyo Symposium on Women. Tokyo: International Group for the Study of Women. Co-edited with Merry I. White.

Articles

Forthcoming "The Quest for Women's Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Japan," in Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, eds. Gendering Modern Japanese History 

1999 "The State and Women in Modern Japan: Feminist Discourses in the Meiji and Taisho Eras," in Janet Hunter, ed., State and People in the Twentieth Century. London: London School of Economics

1998 "Koen ni yosete: Hitotsu no juyo na rekishiteki shunkan" (On the Lecture by Beate Gordon: An important historical moment) Nichibet Josei Jyanaru 24

1998 Encyclopedia entries for Ichikawa Fusae, Hiratsuka Raicho, and Yoshioka Yayoi in James L. Huffman, ed., Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, New York: Garland Press

1995 "Japan's Equal Employment Opportunity Law and the Changing Discourse on Gender," Signs 20.2 (Winter 1995)

1993 "Equality vs. Difference: The Japanese Debate over Motherhood Protection, 1915 - 1950," in Janet Hunter, ed., Japanese Women Working. London: Routledge.

1991 "Activism among Women in the Taisho Cotton Textile Industry," in Gail Lee Bernstein, ed., Recreating Japanese Women. Berkeley, University of California Press.

1990 "Japan's Strategic Investment in High Technology in Colonial Korea, 1925 - 1945," Journal of Modern Korean Studies 4.78-93.

1989 "Innovation and Business Strategy in the Prewar Chemical Industry," in Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa, eds., Japanese Management in Historical Perspective. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.

1989 "Noguchi Jun and Nitchitsu: Colonial Investment Strategy of a High Technology Enterprise," in William D. Wray, ed., Managing Japanese Enterprise: Cases from Japan's Prewar Experience. Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University. 

1980 "Women and Wartime Employment," Feminist Japan 2:79 - 83

Courses

HIST 50 Introduction to East Asian Studies
HIST 51 Introduction to Chinese Civilization
HIST 52 Introduction to Japanese Civilization

HIST 146A Medieval and Early Modern Japan
HIST 146B Modern Japan
HIST 147A Pre-Modern China
HIST 147B Modern China
HIST 148 United States - Japan Relations
HIST 150 Women in East Asia
HIST 151 Imperialism in East Asia

Seminars

East Asian History