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、妇女2000项目我们于7月20日召开了研讨会，并于7月21日和22日举行了工作会议，“新千年的家庭：外国视角与现实场景”国际研讨会。在本次研讨会的第一次会议上，我们共同研究的美国成员Billson教授和Lobban教授做了报告。在第二部分，我们集中讨论了日本的暴力、政治和社会保障制度以及对家庭的关注，这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与其中。我们证实了这两点。首先，尽管存在文化差异，但在一些国家，社会变化影响了家庭和妇女的社会角色和地位，并发生了许多严重的问题。第二，全球化与每个社会特有的传统或文化之间的冲突是最严重的问题之一，这次研讨会可以在这个重要问题上给我们提供有益的建议。在工作会议上，我们共同研究的成员就研讨会提出的这些问题进行了讨论，并安排了在2001年底左右发表我们共同研究的结果和women2000项目的细节。B、基础理论研究我们共同研究并证实了这三点。首先，我们研究了日本和西方现代社会的法律和政治理论是如何对待妇女和家庭的。这些理论研究表明，现代市民社会理论因其对女性和家庭的盲点而存在诸多问题。其次，我们也研究了后现代市民社会理论如何在多元文化和全球化的背景下讨论这些问题。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是非常重要的，以塑造更适合我们的社会。

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.