Governmental Seminar

 

 

Speaker:   SATO Fumika (Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)

Title: Sociology of War and Military from a Gender Perspective

 

 

 

Date&Time:  21 Jul. (Thu.) 2022,  13:15-14:45

*This seminar will be held via Zoom.

You can find the Zoom meeting ID and password

“HIGO企業・行政セミナー/ HIGO Business and Governmental Seminar” on Moodle.

https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=84771

＊Remote Simultaneous Interpretation available

 

Abstrct:

With the sudden Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, armed female soldiers fighting to protect their country have come into the spotlight. Although the presence of female soldiers in war is not a new phenomenon, the situation is not as simple as saying that the presence of female soldiers in combat proves the spread of gender equality even to war and the military.

In this seminar, I will discuss the gender myth that females are always innocent victims in wars and males are better qualified for the military because they have a natural tendency to be violent. We will look at various aspects of war history to understand how the ideas of masculinity and femininity have supported military forces and promoted wars.

 

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