Japanese women
Subtitle: lineage and legacies
By: edited by Amy McCreedy Thernstrom.
Contributors: Thernstrom, Amy McCreedy.; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Asia Program.
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Emperors -- Succession -- Japan; Empresses -- Japan; Political culture -- Japan; Women -- Japan; Sex role -- Japan
Notes: At head of title: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Asia Program.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Lineage and change: the imperial family and the debate over a female emperor. Royal roles, wider changes: understanding Japan's gender relations from a historical perspective / Hitomi Tonomura; title: Imperial succession panic: the politics of gender, blood and race in contemporary Japan / Takashi Fujitani; title: Why should a feminist care about what goes on behind Japan's Chrysanthemum Curtain? / Barbara Molony.; title: Part 2. The "modern" woman and motherhood. Japan's frozen future: why are women withholding investment in work and family? / Chikako Usui; title: Feminism as industrial policy in Japan / Margarita Estévez-Abe; title: Baby strike? Reflections on ideology and realities in women's lives / Merry White.