Akiko Takeyama is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club (Stanford University Press, 2016), which was shortlisted for the 2017 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize by the Association of Feminist Anthropology. Her new book, Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry (Stanford University Press, 2023) received an Honorable Mention for the John Whitney Hall Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies. The prize recognizes outstanding scholarly work in Japanese studies.
She currently works on consent issues in sexual violence.
