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Sabine Frühstück
Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies
PhD, University of Vienna
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Areas of Research
Sabine Frühstück is interested in the study of modern and contemporary Japanese culture and its relationship to the rest of the world. Her research has engaged several intellectual fields. In Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan she uses the methodologies of the historical and sociological study of knowledge to examine the formation and application of a “science of sex” from the late 19th through the mid-20th century. The book constitutes a history of the interplay between sexuality, scientific expertise, social control and politics.
During her research for Colonizing Sex Frühstück became aware of the military’s enormous impact on the formation of the modern world. Subsequently, the armed forces became a second area of research. The ethnography, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army employs gender, memory and popular culture as technologies of engagement with a number of debates that centrally involve the precarious status and condition of Japan’s contemporary military.
Frühstück’s current book-length project is a cultural history of the naturalized connections between infantilism and militarism. Playing Waraddresses the contemporary amalgamation of militarism and entertainment (often referred to as the military-entertainment complex), or the co-production of war games for military, entertainment and therapeutic uses, as a vantage point for an analysis of the rules and regularities of war play, from the hills and along the rivers of 19th century rural Japan to the killing fields of 21st century cyberspace.
Committed to the pursuit of knowledge as an interdisciplinary and international enterprise, Frühstück has co-edited volumes on Recreating Japanese Men, Neue Geschichten der Sexualität, and The Culture of Japan as Seen Through Its Leisure. Her articles and essays have appeared in Japanese, German, French, and English.
Frühstück has been serving on the American Advisory Committee for Japanese Studies of the Japan Foundation; the Executive Board of the Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung; the Board of Trustees of the Society for Japanese Studies, the editorial boards of the University of California Press, The Journal of Japanese Studies and Japan Forum, and as chair of the Executive Board of the Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California. She was a Japan Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tokyo (1998-99, 2001), a University of California President’s fellow at Berkeley (2001-2002), an external faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2005-2006), a visiting research professor at Kyoto University (2003), and a senior fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna (2010).
Selected Books
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日本人の「男らしさ」 -サムライからオタクまで 「男性性」の変遷を追う
カリフォルニア大学（UC）を中心にする研究チームの日本人男性論です。１９９１年、ゲール・ベルンスタインが編集した論文集Recreating Japanese Women（「日本人女性再構築」）が出まして、今は英語圏のジャパニーズ・スタディーズに置いてちょっとしたクラシックになっています。その２０年あと で、やはりジェンダー・スタディーズは女性だけを対象するものではないというトレンドが強まり、やっと... more |
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Recreating Japanese Men, ed. Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall. Berkeley: University of California Press, October 2011.
The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key... more |
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不安な兵士たち ~ニッポン自衛隊研究 サビーネ・フリューシュトゥック、 花田知恵
(翻訳).
戦いを禁じられた軍隊のアイデンティティとは何か? 気鋭のオーストリア人女性学者(東大で教鞭)が日本社会での自衛隊のあり方を分析。 著者自らが一週間の入隊を体験、駐屯地での隊員へのインタビュー、自衛隊にとっての「男らしさ」の概念、女性隊員の待遇、PR戦略等、知られざる自衛隊の実像に迫る! |
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Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Frühstück is the first scholar who had permission to participate in basic training, interview soldiers on base, and examine how the Self-Defense Forces try to shape their environment in current-day Japan. Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army employs gender, memory and popular culture as technologies of engagements with a number of debates that... more |
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Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
A sweeping study of sex, power, and knowledge in modern Japan, this ambitious work provides the first full-scale, detailed history of the formation and application of a science of sex from Meiji through mid-twentieth century Japan. Tracing the different uses made of sexual knowledge, the book brings to light the complex and subtle interplay between sexuality, scientific expertise, social control, and... more |
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Neue Geschichte der Sexualität: Beispiele aus Ostasien und Zentraleuropa 1700-2000, Ed. Franz X. Eder and Sabine Frühstück. Vienna: Turia & Kant, 1999.
Die Sexualität gibt es nicht. Seit Michel Foucault steht fest, dass sexuelle Normen und Kategorien ein System von Machtbeziehungen, eine Art, Macht zu denken und zu organisieren, konstituieren. Die Bedeutung und Sinngebung von Sexualität wie auch ihre sozialen Praktiken haben sich im Laufe der Geschichte radikal verändert. Am Schnittpunkt dieser beiden Überzeugungen positioniert sich der... more |
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The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure. Ed. Sepp Linhart and Sabine Frühstück. New York: State University of New York Press, 1998.
The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure brings together scholars of various disciplines from around the globe to discuss different forms of leisure activities in past and present Japan, thus enriching our knowledge of Japanese culture. Arranged in five sections, the volume focuses on everyday activities such as leisure, sports, travel and nature, theater and music, playing games, and... more |
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
Teaching
- Violence and the State in Modern Japan (Japan 25, lower division)
- Culture and Society of Modern Japan (Japan 63, lower division)
- Representations of Sexuality in Modern Japan (Japan 162, upper division); cross-listed with History and Anthropology
- Modernity and the Masses in Taisho Japan (Japan 164, upper division) cross-listed with History
- Popular Culture in Japan (Japan 165, upper division)
- Japan Modern (Japan 226, graduate seminar)
- Topics in Modern East Asian Cultural Studies: Colonialism/Postcolonialism (East Asian 215, graduate seminar)
- Modern Japanese History (two-quarter graduate research seminar, 288A and 288B).
- Independent Research Assistance (Japanese 199RA)
- Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (INT 94BC, freshmen seminar)
- Men and Masculinities in Modern Japan (INT 94IA, freshman seminar)
- Growing Up in Japan (INT 94IA, freshmen seminar)
- History and Memory in the 20th Century (INT 184SF honors forum course)
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