ISBN:
9781563247255
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (230 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Looking Toward Beijing; I. The Women's Movement; 1. Issues for Japanese Feminism; 2. The Women's Movement: Progress and Obstacles; 3. The Movement Today: Difficult but Critical Issues; II. Issues Facing Women; 4. Economic Development and Asian Women ; 5. Ten Years Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Law; 6. Policies of the Japanese Government Toward Women; 7. Military Sexual Slavery and the Women'sMovement; 8. Commodified Sex: Japan's Pornographic Culture
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Promoting Prostitution10. The Trafficking of Women; 11. In Search of Ruby Moreno; 12. Lesbians and Sexual Self-Determination; 13. The Past and Future of Unai, Sisters in Okinawa; 14. Women and Alternatives to Agricultural Decline; III. Voices of Women; 15. Commitments to Women's and Buraku Issues; 16. Looking at Sexual Slavery from a Zainichi Perspective; 17. My Work as an Ainu Woman; 18. Mizura: Providing Service to Women in Yokomaha; 19. Promoting Women's Participation in Yokohama; 20. Photography from a Woman's Perspective; 21. A Cooperative Restaurant on the Miura Coast
Description / Table of Contents:
22. A Women's Space in Sapporo23. Apron: A Restaurant Run by Women; 24. Working at a Consumer Cooperative; 25. Fighting Back Against Serving Tea; 26. From Child-Care to Local Politics; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
