Educational Background

Ph.D. Anthropology, Yale University

Contact

Email : lynnenakano@cuhk.edu.hk

Courses Offered

Research Interests

1. Women and Gender Issues in Japan, Hong Kong and Shanghai
2. Marriage and Life Choices
3. Volunteerism and Civic Sphere in Japan
4. Images of Fashion, Body and Beauty in Hong Kong and Japan

Current Research Projects

1. Single Women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo
2. Volunteerism in Japan
3. Special Education in Japan

Selected Publications

• 2017 “Happiness and Unconventional Life Choices: Views of Single Women in Japan.” In Wolfram Manzenreiter and Barbara Holthus (ed.) New York and London: Routledge.
• 2016 “Marriage and Reproduction in East Asian Cities: Views from Single Women in Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.” In Tiantian Zheng (ed.) Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
• 2016 “Single Women and the Transition to Marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.” Asian Journal of Social Science. 44:363-390.
• 2015 “Single Women and Cosmopolitan Re-Imaginings of Gendered Citizenship in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo.” In Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal (ed.) Transnational Trajectories of East Asia: Nation, Citizenship, and Region. New York: Routledge. Pp. 157-179.
• 2014 “Single Women in Marriage and Employment Markets.” In Kawano Satsuki, Glenda Roberts and Susan Long (eds.) Capturing Contemporary Japan. University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 163-182.
• 2011 “Working and Waiting for an ‘Appropriate Person’: How Single Women Support and Resist Family in Japan” In Alexy, Allison and Richard Ronald (eds.) Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation. New York and London: Routledge. Pp.131-151.
• 2005 “Community Volunteers in Japan: Everyday Stories of Social Change.” London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon.