This multi-media course explores the relationship among sex, gender, and sexuality in Japanese art, culture and society past and present. Our exploration covers a number of interlaced subjects and topics such as mythology and religion, social hierarchies and demographic changes, sex education, marriage and divorce, parenting, sex-workers and gendered professions, theatre, representations of the body in art and popular culture, ethnicity and LGBT activism, robots and cyborgs, and consumerism and advertising among others.

HISTART category for concentration distributions: C. Asia, 4. Modern and Contemporary