Research on Sustainability : The Academic Journal of the Research Center for Sustainability

農家継承

入会

コモンズ

イエムラ論

farming household women

succession of farming household

commons

the theory of IEMURA

This paper discuses how rural people accepted the succession of farming households and farmlands especially from the view point of farming household women. Women have no right on the farmlands even after the Emancipation of farmlands conducted after World War Ⅱ in Japan. The succession of farming households is a sad and harsh story for rural women. With this in mind, I examined how farming household women have been alienated from various rights by reviewing former surveys on succession of family headship and the duty of supporting the family, and by interviews from an old woman farmer who solved by herself the gender related discrimination (underestimation of women’s labor contribution) which has been practiced for decades in the village. I consider that not only the resources directly managed communally, farming households, farmlands and rural communities are all “commons” for rural people. Rural women have been alienated from such “commons” although they have been the main supporters of the household farming and care work. Entitling rural women to the right on the “commons” is needed as the measures to tackle with the crisis of farm households succession. At first, women need to be entitled to the farming right, then the local “commons”. By acquiring rights on farming, women can get various political supports, too. Being entitled to the rights as the equal members in the households and community, women can get the feeling of social security, too.

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