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Product Identifiers
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
ISBN-109053567933
ISBN-139789053567937
eBay Product ID (ePID)66265983
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Number of Pages245 Pages
Publication NameWomen's Rights? : the Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAbortion & Birth Control, Civil Rights, Women's Studies, Gender & the Law
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorMasae Kato
Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.3 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Historical Background 2. Abortion Debates in the 1970s 3. On women's selfishness and the right to abortion 4. Abortion Debates in the 1980s 5. Analysis of the Discourse on the Concept of the Individual, Political Rights in the 1980s 6. The Debate on the Notion of Individual, Political Rights after the Repeal of the Eugenic Protection Law 7. Liberated Individuals? Conclusion: Summary of the Analysis and the Future of the Concept of 'Rights'
SynopsisThis volume explores the concept of Japanese reproductive rights and liberties in light of recent developments in disability studies. Masae Kato asks important questions about what constitutes personhood and how, in the twenty-first century, we come to understand eugenic abortion and other bioethical arguments. Tracing the origin and influence of the concept of a "right," the author places the term in local social and historical contexts in order to determine that it still carries overtones of Anglo-American philosophy, rather than universal truth. Digging deeply into Japanese debates on selective abortion, Women's Right? discusses how this charged term can be both de-Westernized and de-masculinized, especially in its appropriations by the Japanese women's movement and disability scholars., NOW 60 % PRICE REDUCTION This book analyses the debates between handicapped people's movement and women's movement in Japan about the issue of selective abortion focusing on the concept of 'right'.
LC Classification NumberKDS801-897HQ1180-11
