Gender and law in the Japanese imperium

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...

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Other Authors: Burns, Susan L. (Editor) , Brooks, Barbara J. (Other)
Format: Conference Paper Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press 2014
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Online Access:Verlag, Book review (H-Net): http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43318
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Author Notes:edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks
Table of Contents:
  • The Maria Luz incident and international justice--for Chinese coolies and Japanese prostitutes Douglas HowlandDisputing 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.