Culture Change, Adaptation, and Image Film Series
"Pushy Women" 2001

This short film by director Caro MacDonald offers a glimpse of life for Japanese women in a quite atypical profession-sumo wrestling. Dr. Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania East Asian Studies, discusses the film. The program is presented in association with the 2011-2012 Penn Humanities Forum on Adaptations, with support from Penn's Center for East Asian Studies.

Speaker: Dr. Ayako Kano, East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Free with Museum admission.

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