| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KOHIYAMA Rui Tokyo Woman's Christian University, College of Culture and Communication, Professor, 現代文化学部, 教授 (70186782)
SATO Barbara Seikei University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (50266201)
MUTA Kazue Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Professor, 大学院・人間科学研究科, 教授 (80201804)
SAKAMOTO Hiroko Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Social, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor, 大学院・社会学研究科, 教授 (30205778)
KO Ikujo Meisei University, School of Humanities, Associate professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (00350281)
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| Research Abstract |
This research sees "Modern Girl" as an internationally recognized social phenomenon, which has risen with mass consumption culture in urban Japan during the 1920s and 30s. It analyzes thoughts, metropolises, urban cultures, politics, economics and the development of colonial rule that supported the phenomenon under the matter of colonial modernity. Also, the research considers the Modern Girl phenomenon from gender and sexuality perspectives.
The research zone covers from so called Japanese "inland", Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea, Shanghai, to northeastern region (former Manchuria). 8 researchers in charge of Japan and 4 other overseas scholars, who served as visiting professors at The Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, joined the project ; Tani BARLOW (University of Washington), DAI Jinhua (Peking University ), KIM Eun-Shil (Ewha Womans University), and Vera MACKIE (University of Melbourne ). The research achievements are compiled in the interim report (2005, 2006) as well a
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s the closeout report (2007). Other research activities were conducted such as individual research (data collection, overseas research), research debrief sessions, camp training, international workshops, and symposiums (Tokyo, Seoul).
The significance of this research is the analysis of Modern Girl phenomenon in East Asia with global capital, colonial modernity, and media representations at the core. The contents of the research results are as follows : "Luxury, Capital and the Modern Girl : Shiseido Corporation and the Perfumed Soap", "Stepping in the Shadow of Semi-colonial Modernity : 'Modern Girls' and the Adoption of Western Clothes in Fujin no Tomo", "The New Woman, Moga, and the Good Wife - Wise Mother : the Trilogy of Women' s Representation in Modern Japan", "'The 'Modern Girl' Question in 1920's and 30's Okinawa : Colonial Modernity and Women's Mobility", "Fashion and Colonial Modernity : Being a Moga in Taiwan", "Shanghai Modern Girls and in the Cartoons Representations", "Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women's Magazines" "Buying in : Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s", "The Modern Girl in the Japanese Metropolis", " The Modern Girl and Colonial Modernity in 'Manchuria", "Representations of the West seen in Na Hye Suk' s travel record (tentative title) :" Less
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