2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on the Women's Movements by Mumeo Oku as Trans War History

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22720256
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Japanese history
Research Institution	National Museum of Japanese History
Principal Investigator	HARAYAMA Kosuke 国立歴史民俗博物館, 研究部, 准教授 (50413894)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	婦人運動 / 消費者運動 / 奥むめお / 市川房枝 / 貫戦史 / 戦争協力
Research Abstract	This study intends to reveal the necessities of the task shift, so-called “war-efforts” to later “conversion” by a female activist during and after WW2. Activities by Mumeo Oku and others who sought for empowerment and liberation of women’s lives should be analyzed in the frame that their “lives” were actually on the context of huge varieties of consistent political affairs. This situation was an outcome of political intervention to people’ life world in pre-modern and modern periods: therefore, this study also examined a frame for understanding social movements from this viewpoint.