An Anthropological Approach to the Reality and Representations of Female Soldiers of the U.S. Armed Forces and the Japan Self Defense Force.

这是一个关于美军和日本自卫队女兵的项目。在最近关于性别和相关议题的辩论中，女兵融入军队一直是一个重要问题。随着美国等国女兵研究的发展，日本自卫队女兵也受到了关注。在这样的背景下，我决定通过参考主流文献和对女兵的采访来比较美国和日本的情况。在日本，女兵融入军队的举动并没有引起多少愤怒或骚动。日本防卫厅只是遵循新引入的性别平等标准的要求。然而，有些部门或单位对女性是有限制的，比如直接战斗的部门。在美国，女兵是最大的问题之一，一些激进组织一直致力于让女性充分融入军队，实现基地内外的性别平等。在有些情况下，丈夫已经退出军队，而妻子仍然留在部队，因此前者取决于后者。通过采访，我想了解这位妻子（士兵）和她的丈夫之间，以及她和军队其他人之间的一些问题和冲突。

This is a project on female soldiers employed by the U.S. military and the Japan Self Defense Force. The integration of female soldiers in the military has been one of significant issues in the recent debates on gender and related topics. With the development of the studies of female soldiers in the U.S. and other countries, female soldiers in the JSDF have been paid attention. In such a milieu I have decided to compare the situations in the U.S. and Japan by referring to main literatures and interviews with female soldiers. In Japan, the move to the integration of female soldiers in the military has caused little anger or fuss. The Japanese Agency of Self Defense simply follows the requirement of the newly introduced gender equity low. However, there are some departments or units restricted to women, such as the one for direct fighting. In the U.S. the female soldier is one of the biggest issues, and some activist groups have been committed to the full integration of women in the military and to the realization of gender equality on and off base. There are some cases that husbands have quitted the military, while wives have remained, thus the former depending on the latter. Through interviews, I wished to inquire some problems and conflicts between the wife (soldier) and her husband, or between her and other people in the military.