都市空間をめぐるジェンダー地理学の視点と課題 : 英語圏諸国と日本の研究動向の検討を通じて

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In this paper, the author examines development of feminist geography in Anglophone countries and discusses on the Japanese urban geography focusing on gender issue. In the 1980s, feminist geographers in Anglophone countries have tackled male hegemony, which has dominated the scholarship, and focused on the home and the local community, which have not been paid attention. It was clarified that women playing the housework had been limited to choose their occupation in a dichotomy. After the 1990s, with the increase of the entry by women into labor market, polarization of female labour force, the urban structure of dichotomy changes and gender interests other dimensions such as race, religion, nationality, and class become a material issue. Feminist geographers find the shift from politics of “redistribution” to politics of “recognition”.After the 1990s, with diversification of family and feminization of labor force, some Japanese urban geographers have come to pay attentions to women. However, they have only paid little attentions to reproductive labour, such as community activity or housework. In other words, because some geographers catch women as objects, the private sphere in the urban space is still invisible. We should encompass not only women’s paid work, but also unpaid or voluntary work in terms of both ‘economic’redistribution and ‘social’ recognition to scrutinize transforming suburban space.
2009-03-31