Gender and human rights politics in Japan : global norms and domestic networks

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Gender and human rights politics in Japan : global norms and domestic networks

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien

Stanford University Press, 2004

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index

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内容説明

The main purpose of this book is to revisit prevailing conceptions of the Japanese state-which tend to focus on bureaucratic dominance, party politics, and interest groups-and argue that these institutions cannot explain the extensive legal and political changes concerning women's and children's human rights since the late 1990s. Instead, 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."

目次

CONTENTS 1 Redefining Gender and Race in Japan: An Introduction 000 2 Constructing Japanese State Identity and Interests 000 3 Global Norms Concerning Women's, Children's, and Minority Rights 000 4 Policy, Institutional, and Legal Changes Concerning Women's and Children's Human Rights in Japan 000 5 Grassroots Mobilization: The Pill, Sexual Harassment, Military Sexual Slavery, Domestic Violence, and Child Prostitution 000 6 Human Rights Education in Japan 000 7 Japanese Nongovernmental Mobilization at the World Conference against Racism 000 8 Domestic Mobilization of Global Human Rights Norms: Issue Reframing, Advocacy Education, and Leverage Politics 000 9 Conclusions: Reconstructing Japanese Political Culture in the Age of Globalization 000 Appendixes 000 Notes 000 Index 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Women's rights Japan, Children's rights Japan, Human rights advocacy Japan

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