An Empirical Study on the Representation of Female Bodies in Medical Displays: Focusing on Europe and Japan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Gender; Cultural assets study and museology
• Research Institution: Tohoku University (2016); Hokkaido University (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: MYOKI Shinobu 東北大学, 国際文化研究科, 准教授 (30718143)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 文化資源学 / ジェンダー研究 / 医学史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to examine how female bodies have been exhibited in the field of medicine, which was considered to be “scientific”. The main objects of this research were the “Anatomical Venuses” at medical museums in Italy, France and Austria, and the medical displays and realistic life-size female human dolls in Japan's Hihokan Erotic Museums. This study also analyzes the process by which these bodies became the object of gaze, as seen from the perspectives of gender studies and medical history.

Free Research Field

社会学