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2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The process of constructing "housework" and "child-raising work" in rural Japan: in the 1950s and 1960s

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 19K23280
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section 0108:Sociology and related fields
Research InstitutionDoshisha University

Principal Investigator

Iwashima Fumi  同志社大学, 政策学部, 助教 (30745245)

Project Period (FY) 2019-08-30 – 2022-03-31
Keywords家事 / 育児 / 労働 / ジェンダー / 農村 / 高度経済成長
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study shed light on how the idea of modern "housework" and "child-raising" in Japanese farm households was established under the growing market economy in the 1950s and 1960s. This study analyzed how home economics, agricultural economics and the prefectures or the government's agricultural experimental station targeted "housework" and "child-raising" in rural areas differently.Introducing home electrical appliances to rural families meant not the introduction of "modern" housework or child-raising but visualization and reduction of women's overwork.

Free Research Field

ジェンダー史、農村研究

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近年のジェンダー史研究では、人びとの生きられた経験とそれに基づく主観性(subjectivity)を重視しながら、社会的に構築された〈女性〉の多様性と不平等に焦点をあてる研究が進んでいる。ジェンダー史研究では農村を対象としたものは少なく、農村研究ではジェンダー視点から分析したものが少ないが、本研究は農村において女性労働に注目し、かつ「家事」「育児」が「労働」としてたち現れてくる過程に着目することで、農村女性の実態と文脈に即した家事労働の分析を行うことができた。

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Published: 2023-01-30  

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