Traditional Place and Feminist Space

Material Information

Title:: Traditional Place and Feminist Space The Japanese Tea Ceremony Makes Room for Empowerment
Physical Description:: Book
Language:: English
Creator:: Boecher, Morgan
Publisher:: New College of Florida
Place of Publication:: Sarasota, Fla.
Creation Date:: 2010
Publication Date:: 2010

Subjects / Keywords:: Tea Ceremony
Japan
Heterotopia
Feminism
Orientalism
Anthropology
Gender
Identity
Ethnography
Space, Tradition
Genre:: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
bibliography ( marcgt )
theses ( marcgt )
government publication (state, provincial, terriorial, dependent) ( marcgt )

Abstract:: This thesis examines the tradition of the Japanese tea ceremony as a place for feminist empowerment. I use participant observation and interviews in order to show how this feminine practice can enable women to build their own projects as agents. Tokyo and Kawaguchi, Japan are important sites for the creation and reproduction of traditional and contemporary meaning. The tea ceremony practices of those cities exist within a globalized landscape that adopts binary interpretations that contrast East from West, traditional from modern, and feminine from masculine. This thesis investigates how women doing tea ceremony within this matrix become agents defining their own practices.
Statement of Responsibility:: by Morgan Boecher
Thesis:: Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2010
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Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references.
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General Note:: Faculty Sponsor: Baram, Uzi; Vesperi, Maria