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Notes: Monographs and individual artists' exhibition catalogues are not included in this list, except where they are explicitly feminist and provide a key role model for feminist art practice. You can look at exhibitions and anthologies separately by moving to those pages. For authors' last names use capital letter first. For those beginning with "A", type "A" or use the first 3 letters of their last name.
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This results of this search will give all books, exhibition catalogues, magazines and special issues, blogs, websites and women's art organisations for a country, including places of exhibition and publication and is compiled from n.paradoxa's database.

The results list is organised with links to organisations/websites first, then journals, then books and exhibition catalogues by date (with most recent first):

2019 Keiko Okamura and Marika Kuźmicz Her Own Way: Exhibition of Polish Female Artists in Tokyo (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 14 Aug-14 Oct) (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Adam Mickiewicz Institute)

2018 Michiko Kasahara Gender Photography Theory 1991–2017 (English title of Japanese book) (Kawasaki: Satoyamasha)

2017 Elin Diamond, Denise Varney, Candice Amich eds Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times (Palgrave MacMillan)

2013 Megumi Kitahara Depictions of the Asian Female Body: Visual Representation and War Memory (English title of Japanese book) (Tokyo: Seikyusha)

2012 - 2013 Reiko Kokatsu Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012 (Japan, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum)

2010 Laura Hein and Rebecca Jennison eds Imagination without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan)

2009 Ayelet Zohar ed PostGender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

2005 Reiko Kokatsu Japanese Women Artists in Avantgarde Movements, 1950-1975 (Japan: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts) More

2005 Mako Idemitsu What a Woman Made (art media KY, DVD and booklet) More

2005 Michiko Kasahara Life Actually (Museum of Tokyo Annual 2005 exhibition catalogue (Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) 15 Jan-21 March (Text in Japanese and English)) More

Review reproduced from Volume 16, n.paradoxa, July 2005. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'

Michiko Kasahara Life Actually MOT Annual 2005

exhibition catalogue (Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 15 Jan.-21 March 2005) Text in Japanese and English

Curated by Michiko Kasahara, who was also curator of the Japanese pavilion in Venice in 2005, this exhibition was the first all female artists' show at Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art. Her catalogue essay introduces the work from her own perspective as an independent single woman through a witty comparison with the disasters of Bridget Jones or the explicitness of Sex in the City (both available in Japan), from someone seeking an expression of women's sexual pleasure in contemporary art, when her situation is often seen by other Japanese as either wretched or lonely. Her selection of the abstract and sensual Akiko Mizoguichi's o.i.c.'s work My lover shoots his load inside me. The sperm flows in my body. It is this moment when I feel most alive (2004) is her attempt to address the question of women's sexual subjectivity, as is Hiroko Okada's work Singing in the Pain (2004) about a housewife who through loneliness commits suicide as a demonstration of the failure of this ideal anymore for Japanese women. The legacy of Japan's role in the Second World War and its implications for women was the subject of works by Mako Idemitsu and Yoshiko Shimada (both featured earlier in n.paradoxa Volume 15). The question of subjectivity and individualism emerged in different forms in the photos of Tomoko Sawada (ID 400 (1998) and School Days (2004)) who re-cycles and displaces her own photo-ID as a clone into other group photos; in the word plays and graphic pieces of Hiroko Ichichara; and the fantasy fairy-tale paintings of Tomoko Konoike. This exhibition was a bold attempt to redraw conceptions of women's subjectivity through the display of contemporary Japanese women artists.

Artists in exhibition: Leiko Ikemura, Nobuko Watabiki; Hiroko Okada; Mako Idemitsu; Yoshiko Shimada; Tomoko Sawada; Hiroko Ichichara; Akiko Mizoguchi o.i.c.; Tomoko Konoike; Yuki Onodera.

2005 Midori Yoshimoto Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York (Rutgers University Press) More

2001 Women's Art Network, Japan Women Breaking Boundaries 21 (Osaka, Toki Art Space/Hillside Forum. Text in both Japanese and English.)

2000 Image and Gender () 2007

1999 Chino Kaori and Takaai Kumakura eds Onna? Nippon? Bi? (Women? Japan? Beauty?) (Fujisawa: Keio University Press)

1998 Yoshika Shimada, Ai Mori How to Use Women's Body: Transfiguration of Sex, Gender, Nationality (Tokyo: Ota Fine Arts)

1997 Tokiko Suzuki Yureru onna, yuragu imeji : feminizumu no tanjo kara gendai made = Floating images of women in art history from the birth of the feminism toward the dissolution of the gender (Utsunomiya-shi : Tochigi Kenritsu Bijutsukan)

1996 Metropolitan Museum of Photography Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists (Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Sept 5- October 27)

1991 Michiko Kasahara Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portraits of Contemporary Women Artists (Tokyo: Museum of Photography)

1991 Mary Jane Jacob Shikego Kubota: Video Sculpture (University of Washington Press)

Yukiko Nagakura and Yasuko Watanabe Timeline Project: Women Artists and History ()

FAAB (Feminist Art Action Brigade) () A feminist artists group in Japan, initiated in 2003, (first manifesto is still online)

Tomorrow Girls Troupe a fourth wave social feminist art collective () a fourth wave social feminist art collective, started March 2015

Asia Women and Art Collective (AWAC Network) () Founded in 1994, this group have organised seminars in Japan and the publication / Visions/, a newsletter in Japanese and a one-off edition in english, / Visions International /(March 1996) to promote feminist perspectives in Japan.