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Title Gender and law in the Japanese imperium / edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014
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Contents The Maria Luz incident and international justice -- for Chinese coolies and Japanese prostitutes / Douglas Howland -- Disputing rights: the debate over anti-prostitution legislation in 1950s Japan / Sally A. Hastings -- Gender in the arena of the courts: the prosecution of abortion and infanticide in early Meiji Japan / Susan L. Burns -- Adultery and gender equality in modern Japan: 1868-1948 / Harald Fuess -- Of pity and poison: imprisoning women in modern Japan / Daniel Botsman -- Burning down the house: gender and jury in a Tokyo courtroom, 1928 / Darryl Flaherty -- Sim-pua under the colonial gaze: gender, "old customs," and the law in Taiwan under Japanese imperialism / Chao-ju Chen -- Japanese colonialism, gender, and household registration: legal construction of boundaries / Barbara J. Brooks -- An attempt to integrate the Korean family with the Japanese: a new perspective on the "name-changing policy" in Korea / Motokazu Matsutani
Summary "Collectively, the essays [in this volume] offer a new framework for the history of gender in modern Japan and revise our understanding of both law and gender in an era shaped by modernization, nation and empire-building, war, occupation, and decolonization"--Jacket, page [3]
Notes Most of the papers in this volume are from a conference held in May 2006 at the University of Chicago
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses
Sex and law -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses
Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses
Domestic relations -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses
Women's rights -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Domestic relations
Prostitution -- Law and legislation
Sex and law
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women's rights
Geschlechterrolle
Gesetz
Frauenbewegung
Japan
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Brooks, Barbara J., 1953-2013, editor.
Burns, Susan L., 1958- editor.
ISBN 9780824839192
0824839196