2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Historical Sociology on 'Menstrual Education' in Modern Japan.
| Project/Area Number |
13837027
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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 |
ジェンダー
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| Research Institution | Josai International University |
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Principal Investigator |
KATO Tomoe Josai International University, Faculty of Social Work Studies, Assistant Professor, 福祉総合学部, 講師 (90296369)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2004
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| Keywords | menstruation / menarche / research / sexuality / basal body temperature / motherhood / the education for girls / the sexual education |
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| Research Abstract |
This study was continued through the following three stages.
1 Collecting, organizing, and analyzing of documents and theses (2001, 2002 fiscal year)
(1)I collected documents concerning 'the education for girls, the sex education, and sexology' and made a plan for the entire study.
(2)I constructed the database of past researches on menstruation whose subjects were girls who commute to educational institutions.
Particularly, I paid my attention to 108 research reports of menstruation studies in postwar Japan. Then tried to construct the database of 'author' s name, the title of the report, the name of the magazine, the year of being published, the purpose of the research'. I also tried to make the table focusing on 'research subjects, the number of subjects, and survey items'.
2 Presentations in Annual Meetings (2003 fiscal year)
Based on the database which I mentioned above, I made presentations in the Kantoh Sociological Societies' Annual Meeting and in the Japan Sociological Societies' Annual Meeting.
3 Making of the Report (2004 fiscal year)
I wrote the report titled 'Historical and Sociological Study of Menstruation Education in Modern Japan --Menstruation as the one investigated' and made it a bound volume.
In the analytical book of the report, I showed that, especially in researches on menstruation in modern days, there was a shift in concerns from the monthly expression of menstruation blood to the basal body temperature based on two compatibilities. In a word, the concern for the body to which we only had to pay attention once a month has changed into the every day's phenomenon. This is a phenomenon that has infiltrated widely concerning our body regardless of the area of researches. I discussed about menstruation and the lives of women in modern society, including a trend of the future. Furthermore, as the data book of the report, I appended the database which I mentioned above.
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