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M.Fahrenwaldt@ed.ac.uk
PhD Student
My PhD research is about the Japanese military and how it uses gender to create a strategic narrative of itself. I am particularly interested in how traditionally masculine martial qualities are ascribed to women, looking how this might affect notions of masculinity/femininity, the military's role in society, and ultimately Japanese security policy.
Outside of my current project, the general research themes I'm interested in are: