Reminiscences of Beate Gordon, 2003
- Name
- Gordon, Beate (Interviewee)
- Skabelund, Aaron Herald (Interviewer)
- Cohen, Nicole (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Beate Gordon, 2003
- Abstract
- Childhood and influence of parents; primary education; Mills College; conditions in Japan during World War II; work: Time magazine, GHQ-Allied Powers General Headquarters, Government Section; memories of the Allied Powers occupation of Japan; involvement in drafting Japanese Constitution especially areas pertaining to civil rights and women's rights; acquaintance with husband Joe Gordon; influence of feminism; opposition to constitutional revision in Japan; work as interviewer for Oral History Research Office; service as director of performing arts for Asia and Japan Societies; effects of McCarthyism personally and on colleagues; reminiscences of former colleagues
- Collection Name
- Occupation of Japan project
- Subjects
- Women--Social conditions.--Japan; Women's rights--Japan; Occupations--Japan; Arts administrators; Japan History Allied occupation, 1945-1952; Gordon, Beate; Mills College; Time; Japan; Kenpō (1946)
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 207 pages + index, interviewer's endnotes
- Note (Biographical)
- Director of Performing Arts Programming
- Women's Rights Advocate
- Note
- Interviewed by Aaron Skabelund and Nicole Cohen in 6 sessions, October 15, 2001 - September 5, 2002
- Note (Provenance)
- Gift of Beate Gordon
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15844197
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/5djm-8156
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.