Mari Kotani

Author of Evangelion as the Immaculate Virgin (Tokyo: Magazine House, 1997).

Critics said that her husband wrote her book, and Kotani won a lawsuit against them for textual harassment. The Association for Defending Female Authorship was founded to help defend Kotani and other women writers.

Kotani translated How To Suppress Women's Writing into Japanese, and is one of the founders of the Sense of Gender Award.