著者

芦田 裕介

出版者

社会学研究会

雑誌

ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.59, no.2, pp.75-91, 2014-10-31 (Released:2019-05-24)

参考文献数

25

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Though various measures for gender equality have been taken in Japanese ural society since the 1990s, gender asymmetry still remains. Gender division of abor in family farming is one of the important issues for gender equality in rural ociety. Generally, male farmers use agricultural machinery and female farmers ngage in subsidiary work in family farming. Though the connection between gricultural machinery and masculinity are the main factors of gender division f labor in previous studies, other factors are focused on in this study. I focus n power relations in farm family, relationships among farmers in villages, and elationships between farmers and agricultural machinery companies. Intentions nd behaviors of farmers, especially male farmers, in their agricultural labor re described and analyzed. I conducted fieldwork in Kojo Village, Okayama ity, Okayama Prefecture and interviewed farmers and agricultural machinery alesmen at JA (Japan Agricultural Cooperative) about agricultural mechanization nd the change of farm labor. The use of agricultural machinery reflects a male-dominated system in arm families and relationships among farmers in villages. As a result, male armers mainly use agricultural machinery and female farmers purposely avoidgricultural machinery. Agricultural machinery companies develop and diffuse gricultural machinery in a manner that reflects those relationships, and gender elations in family farming are reproduced. These factors maintain gender division f labor in family farming. Gender division of labor penalizes men and women in arm family. Agricultural machinery originally retains the potential to change gender elations, but in order for it to exert it’s potential, it is necessary to recognize arious relations, particularly those related to gender and power, that are ncorporated into technologies.