A grassroots feminist economic thought: connecting feminist economics with the oral historical research on the British working-class Women's Liberation movement

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K12621
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 80030:Gender studies-related
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Yamamori Toru 同志社大学, 経済学部, 教授 (90325994)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 女性解放運動 / インターセクショナリティー / 経済思想 / ジェンダー / ベーシックインカム / オーラルヒストリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research explored what was behind the demand for basic incomein the British Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s. A resolution for UBI was passed at the National Women’s Liberation Conference in 1977. By interviewing both the working-class women’s liberationists who demanded and the mainstream women’s liberationists who refused / denied the demand, this research reconstructed each thought behind their rationale, elucidated the uniqueness of the former, and named it as ‘grassroots feminist economic thought’. History Workshop Journal invited me to contribute its online special series on ‘Grobal Feminisms’. I had an opportunity to present a part of research at the first conference for ‘decolonising and diversifying the history of economic thought’, then invited to contribute a special issue of an academic journal for history of economic thought. Another paper by the author got the 2021 ‘Basic Income Studies Essay Prize’.

Free Research Field

フェミニスト経済学、オーラルヒストリー、社会政策

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

第一にフェミニズム研究のなかで忘れられた重要な史実を明らかにしたこと、とりわけ英国女性解放運動の母体となったHistory Workshop運動の系譜を引く学術雑誌のオンライン特集に寄稿の機会を得たことで、上記史実を広く知らしめ得た。第二に背景にあった思想を「草の根のフェミニスト経済思想」として再構成し、経済思想史の脱植民地化と多様化を求める学問運動の一環として公表したことで、研究を脱植民地化し多様化する運動の一環に位置付けることができた。第三に、ベーシックインカムについての現代的問題とも繋がることを、 Basic Income Studies Essay Prizeの受賞で明らかにできた。