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This notebook is a collection of books reviews written by Kyoto University’s Transcultural Master’s students. These reviews were produced as part of the “Introduction to Gender Studies” seminar, taught by J. Le Floc’h, associate professor.

The seminar conducted in English is open to both Japanese and international graduate students. During the semester, students read and discuss papers and theoretical texts that are considered as main references in the field of gender studies. For instance, in the 2022-2023 program, they have been confronted successively with texts by Beauvoir, Butler, hooks, Lordre, Adachie and Wolf.

However this seminar does not focus only on English- or French-writing gender studies:  it also invite the students to discover and question the way gender studies already exists in Japan. That’s why these students are responsible for writing in English a review of a book, article or novel by a Japanese author. Those texts are rarely addressed abroad. Therefore, the students’ work is of major interest: it makes it possible to bring together texts that are rarely studied together for an English-speaking readership and to make visible Japanese works that raise questions about gender, had critical ambition and are commited to the fight against discriminations.