Gender and law in the Japanese imperium /

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Imprint:Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Description:ix, 301pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9797764
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Other authors / contributors:Burns, Susan L., 1958- editor of compilation.
Brooks, Barbara J., 1953-2013, editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780824837150 (cloth : alk. paper)
0824837150 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes: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.
Table of 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.