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Gender and law in the Japanese imperium / edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks.

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Gender and law in the Japanese imperium / edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks.
Publication
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Brooks, Barbara J., 1953-2013
  • Burns, Susan L., 1958-
Description
ix, 301 pages; 23 cm
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].
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Women's rights > Japan > Congresses
  • Domestic relations > Japan > Congresses
  • Prostitution > Law and legislation > Japan > Congresses
  • Sex and law > Japan > Congresses
  • Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Japan > Congresses
  • Geschlechterrolle
  • Gesetz
  • Frauenbewegung
  • Japan
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Case studies
  • Études de cas.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Most of the papers in this volume are from a conference held in May 2006 at the University of Chicago.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780824837150 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0824837150 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013029036
OCLC
  • 854848132
  • SCSB-13697130
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library