Hiratsuka Raicho, the well-known new woman in modern Japan, constructed maternalism through ‘the debate on maternity protection’ in the Daisho period. Since then Hiratsuka's maternalism asserting rights of women and maternity protection toward the state was practiced. But the Second Sino-Japanese War lasted in the late 1930s, the contents and assertions of Hiratsuka's maternalism had been altered. Particularly, this research was to investigate the transformation of Hiratsuka's maternalism during the Second Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s. Because her maternalism of the late 1930s had important meanings which were distinguished from Hiratsuka's maternalism composed through ‘the debate on maternity protection’ in Daisho period.
As a result of research, Hiratsuka's maternalism was fused into the discourse of militaristic mother, that is Chong Hoo Buin(hereafter women in the rear guard). Therefore the contents and assertions of Hiratsuka's maternalism had been transformed. First, her maternalism was very emphatic on mothering education of women in the rear guard to beautify Japanese invasion of China. Second, Hiratsuka who emphasized the state's guarantee of maternity proposed many plans for the maternity protection of women in the rear guard. Especially Hiratsuka highlighted the tragic calamity that wars and venereal diseases inflicted upon maternity, family, children and ethic Japanese people. This also led Hiratsuka to demand the programs of venereal disease prevention for Japanese mothers. Besides, as men joined the army in the Second Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s more and more women entered the workforce in this period. Hiratsuka stressed the maternity protection along with special protection of women's labor. Especially Hiratsuka's maternalism connected this maternity protection with national hygienics which was emphasized by the militarism of the emperor system of Japan in this period. Third, Hiratsuka's maternalism which declared progressive women's movement in 1920 was altered to set up an alliance with the activities of militaristic state-inspired women's organizations that were made for the mobilization of women under the war system in the late 1930s.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.