Anne Allison

Anne Allison is a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University in the United States, specializing in contemporary Japanese society. She wrote the book Nightwork on hostess clubs and Japanese corporate culture after having worked at a hostess club in Tokyo.

She received her BA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1986.

Duke Lacrosse Controversy

During the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, she was one of the so-called Group of 88 professors who, shortly after members of the university's lacrosse team were accused of rape, signed a controversial letter attacking the players and thanking protesters for "making a collective noise" on "what happened to this young woman."^[1] After a year-long ordeal that is now widely viewed as one of the most conspicuous miscarriages of justices by a prosecutor in modern American history, the lacrosse players were found innocent of the rape charges. The "Group of 88" letter has since come to be regarded as a notorious example of unfair prejudgment.^[2]

Books

• Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994)
• Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (1995)
• "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination" (2006)

References

1. ^ The Johnsville News: Duke Case: The 'listening' statement
2. ^ http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-group-of-88-is-doing-just-fine/24314

External links

• Allison's faculty page at Duke

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