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
Description: "The author advances a constructivist approach to examine the impact of global human rights norms on Japan. This approach is exceptional in linking gender, children, and minority rights to Japanese norms." "This book offers an up-to-date account of the changes since the 1990s. It also explores the issue of universalism versus cultural relativism within human rights and feminist debates. Instead of assuming that traditional Japanese culture is at odds with the individualistic and legalistic orientation of international human rights standards, the book discusses how Japanese civil society as well as state actors grapple with the rise of the individual, the new salience of law in resolving conflicts, the emergence of horizontal networks of cooperation, and the practice of "postnational citizenship.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-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.