Globalization in the Pacific and Pan-Pacific Women's Movements

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24510362
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Konan University
• Principal Investigator: Yasutake Rumi 甲南大学, 文学部, 教授 (10351751)
• Research Collaborator: Wu Judy Tzu-Chun University of California, Professor ; Choy Catherine Ceniza University of California, Professor ; Leong Karen Arizona State University, Associate Professor ; Pripas Sarah Ross University of California
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 環太平洋 / グローバル化 / トランスナショナリズム / 国際女性ネットワーク / 先住民 / 移民定住者 / 文明化の使命 / 近代化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Contextualizing the inception of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association at Honolulu, Hawaii in 1930, which at the time was unique in its inclusive attitudes toward Polynesian and Asian women, this research project analyzed the relationship between women's movements and the globalization of American systems in the Pacific from the early nineteenth century to the 1930s.
After the arrival of American missionaries in Hawaii in the early nineteenth century, there emerged inter-cultural and international women's exchange and networks, which were accompanied by transformation of the gender norms of Native Hawaiian, Anglo-Saxon, and Asian communities in the Pacific. This project examined this transformation in relationship to the modernization, global expansion of American/Western values and systems, as wells the rise of racial and ethnic nationalism in the Pacific.

Free Research Field

女性史、アメリカ史、環太平洋地域研究