An analysis of geographical spaces from the viewpoint of gender

本研究的目的在于理清性别关系，考察性别空间建构的过程，同时通过引入性别概念和女性主义的地理研究观点来验证地理空间将如何性别。然而，在日本，由于这种研究落后于英语国家，而且研究者之间有共同的理论框架，我们翻译了英国女权主义地理学家罗斯的著作《女权主义和地理学》(Polity Press和1993)，这本书在英语国家得到了很高的评价。我们能够获得丰富的知识储备(这一结果已经在2001年作为Chijin-Shobou的翻译版本发表)。在我们的译本出版后，我们开始翻译D.Massey的一些论文，他在后现代时代的新语境下发展了另类空间理论，并得到了正在攻读研究生课程的研究合作者(Sugiyama和Haraguchi)的帮助。(这一结果也是在一段时间后将时间表作为翻译版本发布)。在日本，运用女权主义的观点进行研究还处于起步阶段。在这个项目中，我们有机会与海外研究人员进行交流，积极向国外发送我们的信息，并旨在为将我国女权主义地理学发展到下一个阶段奠定基础。在一定程度上，我们的目标是通过每年在国外举行的学术会议上介绍五名研究人员来实现的。特别是在2002年，包括一名研究合作者(Yamada)在内的四人在匈牙利贝克斯萨巴第三届国际关键地理会议上作了口头发言。这是一个非常有意义的机会，展示了日本地理学家如何在东亚的背景下努力解决性别问题。

The purpose of this research is to make clear the gender relations investigating the process in which gendered spaces come to be constructed while verifying how geographical spaces would be gendered by adopting the concepts of gender and feminist's viewpoint for geographical research. However, in Japan, since this kind of research is behind English-speaking countries and to have common theoretical framework among investigators, we translated Feminism and Geography (Polity Press and 1993), written by G.Rose who is one of the feminist geographers in UK, which has received high evaluation in English-speaking countries. And we were able to get a rich store of knowledge (this result is already published as a translated version from Chijin-Shobou in 2001). Following the publication of our translated version, we began to translate some papers of D.Massey which develops alternative space theory in the new context after postmodern getting an assistance of research cooperators who are in graduate course (Sugiyama and Haraguchi). (This result is also publishing schedule as a translated version after a while). The research using the feminist's viewpoint is still in the early stage in Japan. In this project we had an opportunity to communicate with overseas researchers by sending our information towards the foreign countries actively and aimed also at foundation-making which develops the feminist geography of our country into the next stage. A certain degree, our goal was attained by presentations of five investigators in the academic meeting held in the foreign countries every year. Especially in 2002, four persons including a research cooperator (Yamada) made oral presentations in 3rd International Critical Geography Conference, Hungary Bekescsaba. It was very significant chance to show how Japanese geographers struggle to gender issues in the context of East Asia.