2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Family, Education, and Labor in the United States : Historical Studies from the Perspective of Race, Class, and Gender
| Project/Area Number |
11610405
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Tsuda College |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKAHASHI Yuko Tsuda College, Faculty of Literal Arts, Associate Professor, 学芸学部, 助教授 (70226900)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAI Setsuko Toyo Gakuen University, Department of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (10200114)
OTSUJI Chieko Tsuru University, Dept. of Comparatove Cultural Studies, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90176941)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2002
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| Keywords | American family / race / civilization / underclass / African American / gender / Umeko Tsuda / abolitionist |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this project was to historically analyze power relations in U.S. society, mainly from the 1 9th century to early 20th century, from the perspective of race, class and gender. We attempted to focus on the areas of family, education, and labor to see the gendered process which intersects the categories of race and class. We believed that it was extremely important to assess historically constructed "masculinities" and "femininities" which have been taken for granted. We, therefore, explored the politics of racial and class differences which was tightly connected to social construction of gender. This relational perspective is vital to understand U.S. history which had slavery and mass immigration
Takahashi mainly dealt with Umeko Tsuda and those people who supported her in both U.S. and Japanese societies in the context of higher education for women. Otsuji analyzed the historical process of gendered and racialized poverty by focusing on the 1996 Welfare Reform. Miyai explored abolitionism through the discourse of body and analyzed how race and gender were constructed in the process of producing such discourse.
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