Reminiscences of Beate Gordon, 2003

Biographical Note

Director of Performing Arts Programming Women's Rights Advocate

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• Arts administrators--Interviews.
• Cohen, Nicole, interviewer.
• Gordon, Beate--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952--Personal narratives.
• Japan.--Kenpō (1946)
• Mills College.
• Occupations--Japan.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Skabelund, Aaron Herald, interviewer.
• Time.
• Women's rights--Japan.
• Women--Japan--Social conditions.

Access Conditions

Copyright held by: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2003