Construction of theory for physical feminism: Towards a critique of sexual violence and more concrete empowerment for women

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26570021
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Okano Yayo 同志社大学, グローバル・スタディーズ研究科, 教授 (70319482)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ケア / 女性の身体 / 母性 / 看護実践

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research succeeded in shedding new lights on the social meanings of vulnerability of female body and a specific way of decision making of women. Care works, such as childcare, house keeping, elderly care and nursing which women historically were forced to practice in most societies partly constructed women's bodies.
Academic papers and books published during the project tried to revalue the care practices which had been devalued or has been enforced on the socially weak. They reexamined the meaning of care practices theoretically, historically and under the context of care works, especially nursing.

Free Research Field

政治思想史