International Women's Movement during Cold War

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24310194
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Fujime Yuki 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (60222410)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 今岡 良子 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(研究院), 准教授 (50273735) ; 木戸 衛一 大阪大学, 国際公共政策研究科, 准教授 (70204930)
• Research Collaborator: song eoun-ok ; Matsuda Yuko ; Nishida Chizu ; Yang Dongsook
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 国際民主女性連盟 / WIDF / 婦人国際平和自由連盟 / WILPF / 世界平和評議会 / WPC

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study we explored the history of the international women's movement during the Cold War and clarified its historical significance by focusing on the International Democratic Women's Federation (WIDF), in which many women participated from both the eastern and western block of the Cold War. We gave attention to not only its public activities but also personal histories of those women who activly participated in WIDF. We also made researches on other international women's organizations like the Women's International Peace Freedom Federation (WILPF) and international peace organizations like the World Peace Council (WPC) as well as grass-roots women. We explored what armed conflicts, foreign military stationing and nuclear development competition gave impacts on women and what roles women made in those international peace movement in the world.

Free Research Field

歴史学