<Articles>The Structure and Nature of the All-Kansai Federation of Women 全関西婦人連合会

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  • <論説>全関西婦人連合会の構造と特質
  • 全関西婦人連合会の構造と特質
  • ゼン カンサイ フジン レンゴウカイ ノ コウゾウ ト トクシツ

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The All-Kansai Federation of Women (1919-41) was a federation of various women's organizations in western Japan. More than 3 million women took part in it at its peak and most prefectures in western Japan had some organizations that sent delegates to its general meeting. The All-Kansai Federation of Women was an unprecedented kind of women's network : in its broad scope it was able to link the conservative peripheral area to the central region where a progressive women's movement had developed. Prefectural offices both supported and interfered in prefectural organizations within the All-Kansai Federation of Women in order to manipulate women. But solidarity within the network enabled these women's organizations to achieve independence in their activities and to lead the women's suffrage movement on a large scale, clearly not what the prefectural offices had intended. It is true that the All-Kansai Federation of Women was not radically opposed to Japan's economic or political system, but in practice it went against the established patriarchal family system. The All-Kansai Federation of Women embodied the spirit of Taisho democracy.

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  • 史林

    史林 71 (5), 747-776, 1988-09-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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