Wives for the Wounded: Marriage Mediation for Japanese Disabled Veterans during World War II
Wives for the Wounded: Marriage Mediation for Japanese Disabled Veterans during World War II
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为伤者的妻子：二战期间日本伤残退伍军人的婚姻调解
DOI：
10.1093/jsh/shaa011
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发表时间：
2020
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0.8
通讯作者：
Lee K. Pennington
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作者：
Lee K. Pennington
摘要：1937年7月，日本武装入侵中国，为迅速增加的日本残疾退伍军人人数创造了新的福利服务。在这些改革中，出现了公共和私人婚姻调解服务，旨在将潜在的新娘介绍给残疾退伍军人，并为严重战争受伤的男子建立独立的家庭。通过大日本残疾人退伍军人协会和爱国妇女协会，日本政府建立了安排此类婚姻的正式程序。与此同时，私人媒人专门为残疾退伍军人设立了婚姻调解服务。公共和私人婚姻调解努力寻求残疾退伍军人的多方面康复，并为日本本土的全面战争动员做出了贡献。在这一过程中，为残疾退伍军人进行的战时婚姻调解加强了当代社会习俗和性别规范，将妇女安置在已婚家庭中支持她们的丈夫。然而，女性拥有非同寻常的个人代理权，因为为了使受伤的军人和战争努力受益，需要她们的同意才能促成婚姻。本文考察了日本残疾退伍军人婚姻调解服务的起源，以及战时对这种努力及其女性参与者的流行描述。
Abstract:Japans armed invasion of China in July 1937 catalyzed the creation of new welfare services for the rapidly escalating number of Japanese disabled veterans. Among those reforms was the emergence of public and private marriage mediation services that aimed to introduce potential brides to disabled veterans and create independent households for men with severe war injuries. Acting through the Greater Japan Disabled Veterans Association and Patriotic Women's Association, the Japanese state established formal procedures for arranging such marriages. Concurrently, private matchmakers created marriage mediation services expressly for disabled veterans. Public and private marriage mediation efforts sought the multifaceted rehabilitation of disabled veterans and contributed to total war mobilization on the Japanese home front. In the process, wartime marriage mediation for disabled veterans reinforced contemporary social customs and gender norms by positioning women within married households to support their husbands. However, women possessed an extraordinary degree of personal agency because their consent was needed to produce marriages intended to benefit wounded servicemen and the war effort. This essay examines the origins of marriage mediation services for Japanese disabled veterans as well as popular wartime depictions of such endeavors and their female participants.