International Co-Study on Change of Women's Social Status and Role : in the Relation of Theories of Modern and Post-Modern Civil Society

A. 2000年妇女项目我们于7月20日举行了专题讨论会，并于7月21日和22日举行了工作会议，题为“新千年中的家庭：从外国视角和实际情况出发的方法”国际专题讨论会。在第二部分中，我们集中讨论了日本的暴力、政治和社会保障制度与家庭的关系，本次共同研究的每个成员都以记者、评论员和讨论者的身份参加了会议，我们确认了这两点。首先，尽管存在文化差异，但社会变革对一些国家的家庭和妇女的社会角色和地位产生了影响，并出现了许多严重的问题。第二，全球化与每个社会所特有的传统或文化之间的冲突是最严重的问题之一，而这次研讨会可以为我们在这一重要问题上提供有益的建议。在工作会议上，我们的共同研究成员就研讨会指出的这些问题进行了讨论，并安排了我们的共同研究和妇女2000项目的出版成果的细节，二、基础理论研究我们共同研究并确认了这三点。首先，研究了日本和西方现代社会的法律的和政治理论对妇女和家庭的处理。这些理论研究表明，现代市民社会理论由于对妇女和家庭的盲点而存在诸多问题。第二部分探讨了后现代市民社会理论在多元文化和全球化背景下如何探讨这些问题。此外，这些关于妇女和家庭的理论观点对于我们的理论和实践主题都非常重要，以形成更适合我们社会的观点。

A, Women 2000projectWe held the symposium on the 20th July and working session on the 21st and 22nd July, International Symposium on Family in the new Millennium : Approaches from Foreign Perspective and Practical Scenes.In the first session of this symposium, prof. Billson and prof. Lobban, member in USA of our co-study gave a report. In the second session, we focused on violence, politics and social security system with concern of family in Japan, each member of this co-study took a part as reporter, commentator and discussant.We confirmed these two points. First is, in spite of cultural differences, social change have influenced on social role and status of family and women in several countries and occurred many serious problems. Second is conflict between globalization and tradition or culture peculiar to each society is one of the most serious issues, and this symposium could give us helpful suggestions on this important issues.In working session we discussed each others of our co-study member on these issues which were pointed by symposium, and arranged the detail on publishing result of our co-study and women2000 project, by around the end of 2001.B, Study on basic theoryWe co-studied and confirmed these three points. First is we studied that how women and family have been treated in legal and political theory of Japanese and western modern society. These theoretical study make it clear that theories of modern civil society have several problems because of their blind point for women and family. Second is also we studied how theories of post-modern civil society can discuss these problems under the circumstances of multiculturalism and globalization. Furthermore these theoretical points around women and family are very crucial for our both theoretical and practical subject, to shape up more appropriate for our society.