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Gender and law in the Japanese imperium /

"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]

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brooks, Barbara J., 1953-2013 (Editor ), Burns, Susan L., 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.