2014 - 2018 Bridging and Networking between Academism and Activism in the pursuit of a Gender Equal Society
Papers (22):
Aya Kitamura. Between Cosmopolitan Mothering and the Global Care Chain: Japanese Mothers, Intra-Asian Migration, and Everday Struggles of ‘the Nanny Question.’. Care(ful) Relationships Between Mothers and the Caregivers they Hire, Katie B. Garner and Andrea O’Reilly eds. 2024. 246-265
AYA KITAMURA. Who Cooks What, How and for Whom?: Gender, Racial, Ethnic, Class Politics of Food in Asian Global Households. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative. 2022. 13. 2. 197-212
Aya Kitamura. When a Household Becomes Multilingual: Family Language Practices of Japanese Mothers in Asian Global Cities. Readings in Language Studies, Volume 8: Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Society. 2020. 8. 302-321
Aya Kitamura. ‘How I wish English would actually save us women!’: Anguish, ambivalence, and agency among bilingual career women in Japan. Attitudes to English Study among Japanese, Chinese and Korean Women: Motivations, Expectations and Identity. 2020. 125-140
Aya Kitamura. Gender, Representation and Identity: The Multifold Politics of Japanese Woman Imagery. Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies. 2019. 269-284
Caring for the Family and Caring for the Nation: The Childcare Crisis and Conflated Burdens on Families and Mothers in Neoliberal Japan.
(Gender in an Age of Global Care Crisis Conference 2024, Oxford University 2024)
Challenges & Issues in Post Pandemic Recovery Process: in the Context of Vulnerable Girls & Women
(Panel Discussion, International Conference on Gender and Women's Studies, National University of Singapore Society 2022)