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 Sherman Library  HQ1236.5.J3 G46 2014    AVAILABLE  
Title Gender and law in the Japanese imperium / edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks.
OCLC 854848132
ISBN 9780824837150 (cloth : alk. paper)
0824837150 (cloth : alk. paper)
Publisher Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014.
Description ix, 301 pages ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s Women's rights -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses.
Domestic relations -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses.
Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses.
Sex and law -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- Case studies -- Congresses.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Maria Luz incident: personal rights 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 / Chen Chao-ju -- Japanese colonialism, gender, and household registration: legal construction of boundaries / Barbara J. Brooks -- A new perspective on the "name-changing policy" in Korea / Matsutani Motokazu.
General note Most of the papers in this volume are from a conference held in May 2006 at the University of Chicago.
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