Comparative Analysis of the Representation of Gender Ethnicity during World War II and the Post War World Order

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24510387
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Keiwa College
• Principal Investigator: SUGIMURA Shino 敬和学園大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (20329337)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KUWAHARA Hisako 敬和学園大学, 人文学部, 教授 (70234630)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KANDA Yoriko 敬和学園大学, 人文学部, 教授 (40247424) ; MATSUMOTO Masumi 室蘭工業大学, 工学研究科, 教授 (30308564) ; HIRATSUKA Hiroko 日本大学, 生産工学部, 助教 (80407379)
• Research Collaborator: KANO Mikiyo 敬和学園大学, 人文学部, 元特任教授 ; MATSUZAKI Yoko 敬和学園大学, 人文学部, 名誉教授 ; IKEGAWA Reiko 大阪経済法科大学, アジア太平洋研究センター, 研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ジェンダー / 戦争 / メディア / 表象 / エスニシティ / 戦後秩序 / 西洋史 / 東洋史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has been focusing on the analysis of the representations of gender and ethnicity through popular media such as magazines and films created and published in Britain, US, China, Germany, and Japan during the World War II. Our research has shown that these media greatly contributed to nationalizing women and minor ethnic groups at the war. We have seen the borders of gender roles often blurred because the war often widens the spheres for women and minorities as they are expected to fill in the positions after men are driven away to the front. However, in the most of the countries above, there was a strong back-rash for women in the post -war time, and they were encouraged to return to the rather conservative roles at home. In this research, the post-war representations of gender and ethnicity are compared with those of the war-time, and how they are influenced to each other and adapted to the post-war order of gender and ethnicity in each country.

Free Research Field

イギリス文化・文学