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The New Woman in Modern Nation States : A Comparative Study

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11610223
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionKonan Women's University

Principal Investigator

MUTA Kazue  Konan Women's Univ., Professor, 人間科学部, 教授 (80201804)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2001
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Keywordsthe New Woman / nation state / gender / sexuality / Suffragist movement / 家族国家観 / 良妻賢母 / シェンダー / フェミニズム / the New Woman
Research Abstract

The New Woman" might be seen as a Western product, but in fact a new type of woman appeared in the East, in Japan, China and Korea, at nearly the same time as in the West. Although this New Woman did not arise indigenously and was certainly influenced by the West, she was notjust a carbon copy of her Western counterpart, but displayed distinct characteristics within the respective historical contexts. "
Although the New Woman phenomenon was not a media-produced illusion but the result of social change in Japanese modernization, the Japanese New Woman had little resources to survive. They appeared less than half a century after the beginning of Japan's modernization. With less industrialization and less democratization, and with middle class just having begun to form a social stratum, economic or social opportunities for women were severely limited. Few professional jobs were available, making it extremely hard for a woman to gain independence from father or husband. A suffragist movement did exist in Japan, but in contrast to the United States or Britain, it never gained any substantial political power.
Considering this context, the progressive and liberal attitude of the Japanese New Woman in the early 1 91 Os seems all the more remarkable. And yet, as discussed, the Japanese New Women showed an ambivalent attitude towards sexuality and marriage, judged from a contemporary point of view. The ambivalence arose in response to the traditional norms that had oppressed Japanese women for such a long time. The New Woman became new" in a specific way according to a distinct social and historical context within each society, not only in Japan but anywhere including the West. Their unique expression of "newness" fits precisely their way of struggle."

Report

(4 results)
  • 2001 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All Other

All Publications (11 results)

  • [Publications] 牟田和恵: "『女の文化』所収「良妻賢母主義の表裏」"岩波書店. 247(23-46) (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 牟田和恵: "『近代日本のジェンダー』所収「日本近代のフェシンズムの再検討」"明石書店. 320(47-74) (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 牟田和恵: "『ジェンダーと差別』所収「家族国家観とジェンダー秩序」"岩波書店(印刷中). (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Muta, Kazue: "'New Woman Hybridities'所収'Radical ambivalence?'"Routledge(London)(in progress).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Muta, Kazue: "Radical Ambivalance? The New Woman in Japan"In Ann Heilmann and Margaret Beetham(eds.) New Woman Hybridities : Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880-1930, Routledge. in progress. (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Muta, Kazue: "Kazuko kokkakan to jendah chitsujo (Family-state ideology and gender hierachy)"In Jendah to sabetsu (Gender and discrimination), edited by Amino Yashihiko et al., Iwanami shoten, Tokyo. (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Muta, Kazue: "Nihonkindai no feminizumu no saikentou(Rethinking of feminist moement in modern Japan)"In Kindai nihon no jendah (Gender in Modern Japan), edited by Miyake Yoshiko, Akashi shoten, Tokyo. (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Muta, Kazue: "Ryosai-kenbo shugi no hyori (The double sides of 'good wife-wise mother 'ideology)"In Onna no bunka (Subculture of women), edited by Aoki Tamotsu et al., Iwanami shoten, Tkyo. (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 牟田和恵: "『ジェンダーと差別』所収「家族国家観とジェンダー秩序」"岩波書店. (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 牟田和恵: "『近代日本のジェンダー』所収「日本近代のフェミニズムの再検討」"明石書店. (2001)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 牟田和恵: "『女の文化(近代日本文化論8)』所収の「良妻賢母思想の裏表」"岩波書店. 247(23-46) (2000)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1999-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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