Representations and Images of Women's Physical Education in prewar Japan

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25750300
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Daito Bunka University
• Principal Investigator: Kasuga Yoshimi (春日芳美) 大東文化大学, スポーツ健康科学部, 講師 (20645303)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 日本女子体育史 / 女性体操教員 / 女子スポーツ / 女性観

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to focus on women's physical education in Japan before World War II and to review the “image related to women's physical education" which had been discussed in previous studies. As a result of the research such things as (1) the relationship between women's physical education and the word “otenba” (tomboy), (2) the differences in statements and images about female physical education teachers and female athletes, (3) human relations among female physical education instructors and the genealogy of physical exercises and (4) common points in women's physical education in Japan and Europe before World War II have been revealed.

Free Research Field

女子体育史