Gender and human rights politics in Japan
Subtitle: global norms and domestic networks
By: Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Women's rights -- Japan; Children's rights -- Japan; Human rights advocacy -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Redefining gender and race in Japan : an introduction; title: Constructing Japanese state identity and interests; title: Global norms concerning women's, children's, and minority rights; title: Policy, institutional, and legal changes concerning women's and children's human rights in Japan; title: Grassroots mobilization : the pill, sexual harassment, military sexual slavery, domestic violence, and child prostitution; title: Human rights education in Japan; title: Japanese nongovernmental mobilization at the World Conference against Racism; title: Domestic mobilization of global human rights norms : issue reframing, advocacy education, and leverage politics; title: Conclusions reconstructing Japanese political culture in the age of globalization.