SATŌ Fumika is Professor of Gender Studies at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University. She received her B.A. from Keio University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.
After serving as Assistant Professor at Chubu University, she joined Hitotsubashi University, where she served as Associate Professor from 2005 and has been Professor since 2015. She was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2011–2012.
Her research interests include social theory of gender, as well as the sociology of the military and war. She conducted sociological fieldwork at the Japan Self-Defense Forces for her doctoral research, which was published as Gender and the Military: Women in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (in Japanese, 2004).
She has served as President of the International Society for Gender Studies, Representative of the Steering Committee of the Women’s Studies Association of Japan, and co-editor of the Iwanami “War and Society” series.
She was the recipient of the Showa Women’s University Prize for Women’s Culture Research in 2023 for the Japanese version of The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers.
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The Conundrum of the Female SoldiersSATŌ Fumika
The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers examines o...The Conundrum of the Female Soldiers examines one of the most contested issues in contemporary gender studies: women in the military. Drawing on two decades of research and the author’s formative e...
