西洋近代を普遍的モデルとした女性解放言説を問う : ケニア・ギクユ人社会研究をみる

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In explaining Kenyan women's empowerment, C. A. Presley, an American historian, emphasizes women's voting rights and land rights gained after Kenyan independence. The rights have been seen as the established indicators of modernization that show the extent of women's liberation. Researchers including Ester Boserup, however, point out that African women's authority was eclipsed with Westernization, which introduced male-dominated commercial crops and new agricultural technologies into African communities. Examination of several studies focusing on situations of modern Kenyan women farmers - the majority of the female population - from the precolonial to postcolonial eras, leads us to be skeptical about the indicators of modernization. If we were to study and survey Gikuyu women's individual and national agency through the lens of the Westernization model, which is inevitably based on a dichotomous comparison between "modern Westernized society" and "traditional African society," the historical process of their struggles for and attainments of liberation would remain invisible. In order to see the actual face of African feminist perspectives, such a dichotomy must be broken through by recognizing women's daily quest for modern African women's agency, which does not fall within the Westernization.
大阪府立大学の論文
2006-03-31