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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450209403321

Autore

Kobayashi Yoshie <1955, >

Titolo

A path toward gender equality : state feminism in Japan / / Yoshie Kobayashi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

0-429-23412-0

1-135-93634-X

1-280-15445-4

0-203-50867-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

East Asia : history, politics, sociology, culture

Disciplina

305.42/0952

Soggetti

Women's rights - Japan

Women - Government policy - Japan

Women - Employment - Law and legislation - Japan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Establishment of a Women's Bureau in Japan -- The women's ineffective prior the International Women's Year -- Departure from politics of protection : agenda setting process -- Mediator's role of the Women's Bureau : activities in the decision making for the 1986 EEOL -- Activity of the Women's Bureau for amendment of the 1999 EEOL.

Sommario/riassunto

The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of feminist policymaking, it tends to neglect a state's activity in improving women's status and rights in non-western nations where the feminist movements are apathetic or antagonistic to the state and where the state also creates a vertical relationship with feminist groups.