Sexual violence and the law in Japan
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Sexual violence and the law in Japan
(ASAA women in Asia series / editor, Louise Edwards)
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
Available at 32 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Later printing published by Routledge
Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-193) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable and the legal system which encourages homogeneity and conformity in decision-making and shows how the legal constraints confronting women claiming sexual assaults are enormous. It includes analysis of specific case studies and a discussion of recent moves to address the problem.
Table of Contents
Prelude: Rape v Murder - or (Excessive) Self-Defence? 1. Legal Storytelling and Sexual Violence 2. Hegemonic Masculinity and Guilty Feminine Bodies 3. Confronting the Japanese Criminal Justice System 4. Credibility in the Court: Scripting Rape 5. 'In Truth She Was Probably Very Drunk': Women Subject to Scrutiny 6. Markers of Truth: Silencing Women in the Court 7. Subversive Stories and Feminist Strategies 8. Conclusion
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