Historical periphery and its harmonic coexistence : in Relation to epidemic, taboos, misogynous boundaries and the tradition of purifying rituals

About This Project

Japan Grant Number
JP20242018 (JGN)
Funding Program
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Funding Organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Kakenhi Information

Project/Area Number
20242018
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Allocation Type
  • Single-year Grants
Review Section / Research Field
  • Humanities and Social Sciences > Humanities > History > Japanese history
Research Institution
  • Nara Women's University
Project Period (FY)
2008 〜 2011
Project Status
Completed
Budget Amount*help
36,270,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 27,900,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 8,370,000 Yen)

Research Abstract

The present study investigated historical changes in the awareness of the female body during the process of marginalization(deterioration in socialstatus) of women in Japan's history focusing on five main aspects : medicine, sanitation, religion, geography, and childbirth/menstruation. Perspectives on the female body in traditional and modern medicine, the significance of women's roles in modern health policies, transitions in the recognition of women in Buddhism and Shinto, and the formation of community responses to impurity associated with bleeding were clarified.

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