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

Contributor(s): Burns, Susan L, 1958- [editor of compilation.] | Brooks, Barbara J, 1953-2013 [editor of compilation.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 1 online resource (314 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780824839192 (e-book).Subject(s): Women's rights -- Japan -- Case studies | Domestic relations -- Japan -- Case studies | Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Japan -- Case studies | Sex and law -- Japan -- Case studies | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Japan -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.420952 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Most of the papers in this volume are from a conference held in May 2006 at the University of Chicago.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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