第二次世界大戦から現在までの日本の農村がかかえている諸問題を、女性と家族を中心に分析・考察する。全文英文で、留学生にも世界の農村社会研究者にも日本農村が分かるよう編集した。 Foreword Chapter 1 Gender Issues and Rural Society in Present Japan 1 Current Issues on Women's Policy in Rural Areas:The Establishment of Partnerships in Farm Families and in the Rural Community［中道仁美（Hitomi NAKAMICHI）］ 2 Gender in Japanese Rural Society:The Present Condition of Rural Women［高橋由紀（Yuki TAKAHASHI）］ 3 The Gender Issue in the Home Life Improvement Extension Service of Postwar Japan［市田（岩田）知子（Tomoko Iwata ICHIDA)］ Chapter 2 Change and Continuity of Stem Family Households in Rural Japan 4 Grape Farm Management Scale and Family Ideology［堤マサエ(Masae TSUTSUMI)］ 5 Women's Status in Agricultural Households［大友由紀子(Yukiko OTOMO)］ 6 A Tentative Analysis of the Emotional Life of Farm Women in Contemporary Japan:Based on the Grammatical Structure of Tanka Poetry［相川良彦(Yoshihiko AIKAWA)］