Becoming a Feminist A Reflection on Life in Three Places
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Jan 6, 2025
Keywords:
feminism;, Japan;, Asia;, queer;, motherhood;, postcolonial;, decolonial
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Abstract
This autobiographical essay explains how a Japanese girl growing up in Japan goes to the USA to become a philosopher as well as a feminist. After living a life of a philosophy professor and a feminist, however, she ends up becoming a homemaker and mother in Germany. Currently she is again an academic, spending several months in Japan, contemplating on creating a feminist theory based on Japanese philosophy.
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Arisaka, Y. (2025). Becoming a Feminist: A Reflection on Life in Three Places. Journal of World Philosophies, 9(2). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/7952
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Intellectual Journeys
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