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Haruko Wakita et al., « L'histoire des femmes au Japon. La « maison », l'épouse et la maternité dans la société médiévale », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1999.279735
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Women's History in Japan. Wakita H. After retracing the different points studied by the Japanese historians since the 1920's concerning the history of Japanese women, the author tries to stress the impact of matrimonial position of the women in the Japanese society. For her, the central point is the creation of the ie (family) system which determines the rank of the women in the society. The discrimination of women is harder when the woman is not a member of the ie (mother, or wife). In the Middle Ages, the married woman is in charge in the ie of a part of the production and this explains the interference of the women of that time in different levels of the society (including the political decision-making). With the early modern period, the most part of the social production is developped outside the ie system and this phenomenon brings a loss of position for the women. The Western women's history may not have stressed this problem as it has been studyed in Japan. It could be a new direction for the gender studies in Europe.