岩手における戦争と女性 : 麗ら舎読書会「千三忌」を中心に

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This paper focuses on the anniversary of the death of a peasant soldier and his mother, called Senzo-ki, observed by Urara-Sha Reading Group in Kitakami city, Iwate prefecture, and reveals how local feminists question the relationship between war and women in Iwate by analyzing the life stories of two local feminists in the reading group; Obara Reiko and Ishikawa Junko. They consider that wartime sexual violence against women is linked to peacetime gender inequality, and reinterpret women's experiences of war in Iwate from a feminist perspective. Senzo-ki is neither an event to honor the spirits of the war dead nor a peace movement characterized by maternalism like many other women's movements in Japan. Succeeding to the history of postwar peace movements in this area critically, it objects to the militarization of women.