The feminist Conflict and Challenge against the Liberal Subject in Marianne Weber

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01933
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: NAITO Yoko 同志社大学, アメリカ研究所, 嘱託研究員 (70440998)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: マリアンネ・ヴェーバー / ドイツ女性運動 / リベラリズム / セツルメント運動 / マックス・ヴェーバー / カント / 倫理 / 自然

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research focuses on how Marianne Weber (1870-1954), a women’s movement activist in Imperial Germany, attempted to form the modern female subject under the influence of German liberalism. Moreover, I examine how she tackled the difficult problem of discrepancy between the liberal subject and the female subject. Through this research, it is revealed that her thoughts were formed in a multifaceted manner by philosophical considerations on women as the ethical and political subject, studies of German family law in terms of policy for women, and practical involvement in German women's movement. This research also reveals that her confrontation with the term "nature" in intellectual context of that time was important in her thought formation.

Free Research Field

政治思想、ジェンダー論