TY - BOOK AU - Brooks,Barbara J. AU - Burns,Susan L. ED - Project Muse. TI - Gender and law in the Japanese imperium SN - 9780824839192 AV - HQ1236.5.J3 G46 2014 U1 - 305.420952 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaiʻi Press KW - Women KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Japan KW - Case studies KW - Congresses KW - Sex and law KW - Prostitution KW - Law and legislation KW - Domestic relations KW - Women's rights KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Most of the papers in this volume are from a conference held in May 2006 at the University of Chicago; Includes bibliographical references and index; The Maria Luz incident and international justice--for Chinese coolies and Japanese prostitutes / Douglas Howland -- Disputing rights: the debate over anti-prostitution legislation in 1950s Japan / Sally A. Hastings -- Gender in the arena of the courts: the prosecution of abortion and infanticide in early Meiji Japan / Susan L. Burns -- Adultery and gender equality in modern Japan: 1868-1948 / Harald Fuess -- Of pity and poison: imprisoning women in modern Japan / Daniel Botsman -- Burning down the house: gender and jury in a Tokyo courtroom, 1928 / Darryl Flaherty -- Sim-pua under the colonial gaze: gender, "old customs," and the law in Taiwan under Japanese imperialism / Chao-ju Chen -- Japanese colonialism, gender, and household registration: legal construction of boundaries / Barbara J. Brooks -- An attempt to integrate the Korean family with the Japanese: a new perspective on the "name-changing policy" in Korea / Motokazu Matsutani UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780824839192/ ER -