Women's Conservative Movements in Japan: Consideration from Perspective of Gender

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H06926
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Ayaka 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 助教 (20779590)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 保守運動 / ナショナリズム / ジェンダー / 社会運動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project aimed to reconsider women's conservative/ right-wing movements as women's movements from perspective of gender. In Japan, many groups belonging to “right-wing” have been active since the late of the‘90s. From the gender point of view, I have made investigations into two “right-wing” groups since 2008. Most of the members in the both groups are mainly women. They oppose to gender equality and feminism, and approve gender division of labor. I have focused on their contradiction; although they admire traditional gender norms, they are also engaged in social movements in the public sphere. In this project, I attempted to translate these movements from conservative movements into women's movements.

Free Research Field

社会学