Amanda C Seaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6602378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda C Seaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda C |
| FAMILY NAME | Seaman |
| SIGNATURE | SEAMAN A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8996-5869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Financing Fertility
This article explore works by five authors who deal with the financial costs of trying to get pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth in Japan today. It explores new reproductive technologies and the problems when people other than married women try to access them. The underlying message is that if a woman wants to try something her own way then there are steep costs associated with it and perhaps, by alleviating these costs, this could contrib…
Chapter 5
Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
Writing Pregnancy in Low Fertility Japan analyzes the literary representations of pregnancy and childbirth by Japanese women in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century—work notable not simply for the diversity of views it encompasses, but for the wide range of genres in which it has taken shape. These texts reveal complex political, personal, and social concerns, ranging from the role and nature of the woman’s body, to her place in the …
The Ties that Bind
This article explores the meaning and use in Japan of the hara obi (belly band), first attested in the eighth-century chronicle Kojiki, tracing its changing medical, religious, ritual, and literary significance up to the present day. While some Tokugawa-era doctors disparaged the hara obi’s medical value, it continued to play a role in prenatal care which continues today, a role enhanced by its function as a religious talisman and an object of fo…
Inside OUT
Bodies of Evidence
The publication in 1992 of Miyabe Miyuke's highly anticipated Kasha (translated into English as All She Was Worth) represents a watershed in the history of Japanese women's detective fiction. Inspired by Miyabe's success and the increasing number of Western mysteries in translation, women began writing mysteries of all types, employing the narrative and conceptual resources of the detective genre to depict and critique contemporary Japanese socie…
There goes the neighbourhood
Miyabe Miyuki, one of Japan’s best-known and best-selling writers of detective fiction, has used the genre to critique contemporary Japanese society. In this paper, I examine one of Miyabe’s central concerns: the transformation of Tokyo’s urban environment and the effect that the development of luxury buildings in a blue-collar neighbourhood has on individual and community identity. In her 1992 novel Kasha, Miyabe chronicled the corrosive effects…
Cherchez la femme
(2004). Cherchez la femme: detective fiction, women, and Japan. Japan Forum: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 185-190
There goes the neighbourhood
Miyabe Miyuki, one of Japan’s best-known and best-selling writers of detective fiction, has used the genre to critique contemporary Japanese society. In this paper, I examine one of Miyabe’s central concerns: the transformation of Tokyo’s urban environment and the effect that the development of luxury buildings in a blue-collar neighbourhood has on individual and community identity. In her 1992 novel Kasha, Miyabe chronicled the corrosive effects…
Bodies of Evidence
The publication in 1992 of Miyabe Miyuke's highly anticipated Kasha (translated into English as All She Was Worth) represents a watershed in the history of Japanese women's detective fiction. Inspired by Miyabe's success and the increasing number of Western mysteries in translation, women began writing mysteries of all types, employing the narrative and conceptual resources of the detective genre to depict and critique contemporary Japanese socie…
There goes the neighbourhood
Miyabe Miyuki, one of Japan’s best-known and best-selling writers of detective fiction, has used the genre to critique contemporary Japanese society. In this paper, I examine one of Miyabe’s central concerns: the transformation of Tokyo’s urban environment and the effect that the development of luxury buildings in a blue-collar neighbourhood has on individual and community identity. In her 1992 novel Kasha, Miyabe chronicled the corrosive effects…
Cherchez la femme
(2004). Cherchez la femme: detective fiction, women, and Japan. Japan Forum: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 185-190
Inside OUT
The Ties that Bind
This article explores the meaning and use in Japan of the hara obi (belly band), first attested in the eighth-century chronicle Kojiki, tracing its changing medical, religious, ritual, and literary significance up to the present day. While some Tokugawa-era doctors disparaged the hara obi’s medical value, it continued to play a role in prenatal care which continues today, a role enhanced by its function as a religious talisman and an object of fo…
Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
Writing Pregnancy in Low Fertility Japan analyzes the literary representations of pregnancy and childbirth by Japanese women in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century—work notable not simply for the diversity of views it encompasses, but for the wide range of genres in which it has taken shape. These texts reveal complex political, personal, and social concerns, ranging from the role and nature of the woman’s body, to her place in the …
Chapter 5
Financing Fertility
This article explore works by five authors who deal with the financial costs of trying to get pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth in Japan today. It explores new reproductive technologies and the problems when people other than married women try to access them. The underlying message is that if a woman wants to try something her own way then there are steep costs associated with it and perhaps, by alleviating these costs, this could contrib…
Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)