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1st Edition

Feminism and Gender Research in Japan

Edited By Diane Elson Copyright 2023
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge
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There is a large gap between Japan’s ranking on indicators of economic development and on indicators of gender equality. This book helps us to understand why. The chapters in this volume illuminate important dimensions of gender inequality in Japan – in relation to class, and in comparison to other countries. The book considers the relation of gender inequality to neoliberal policies, and the... Read more

Introduction: Feminism and Gender Research in Japan

Diane Elson

1. Why do Japanese women suffer from the low status?: The impact of neo- liberalist reform on gender

Chizuko Ueno

2. Impact of Marxist feminism on Japanese women’s movement: Focusing on the domestic labor debates

Kumiko Ida

3. Gender equality, paid and unpaid care and domestic work: Disadvantages of state- supported marketization of care and domestic work

Sumika Yamane

4. Development, gender, and asymmetries between Mexico and Japan

Alicia Girón

5. Intersections of gender and class in the distribution of income

Diane Elson

6. The reproductive crisis in neoliberal capitalism: Commenting on D. Elson’s recent paper

Makoto Itoh

Biography

Diane Elson is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has published widely on gender and development. She was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing Frontiers of Economic Thought, 2016, and the International Book Prize, Japan Society of Political Economy, 2018.

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