岩手におけるウーマンリブと生活記録運動(1) : 1950～60年代における小原麗子の自己表現活動を軸として

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Obara Reiko (1935- ) is a leader of the “Seikatsu-Kiroku” (Life-Writing) movement of the young person’s association in Kitakami city, Iwate prefecture in the 1950s -1960s. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between the “Seikatsu-Kiroku” movement and Women’s Lib in Iwate through Obara’s claims about gender issues in the “Seikatsu-Kiroku” anthologies. In the “Seikatsu-Kiroku” movement, young rural women, including Obara, wrote about their own daily lives, using their own voices. By writing about their own lives and reading about those of others, the participants in this movement shared their experiences of gender discrimination with other women and increased the consciousness of gender issues that rural women faced. This process is thought to be similar to the consciousness-raising of the Women’s Liberation movement. Furthermore, the act of writing itself was a form of resistance against the gender structure of rural villages. By writing about their lives in the cultural context of a rural village in which women were culturally and traditionally discouraged from writing, they also rewrote the history of rural women.
2012-03-31