Gender and development : the Japanese experience in comparative perspective
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan ,
c2005
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2005042931-t.html |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: an attempt to integrate gender and development issues of Japan and developing countries
- 2. Economic development and gender disparities: the Japanese experience
- 3. Gender perspectives in family planning: the development of family planning in postwar Japan and policy implications from the Japanese experience
- 4. 'Livelihood improvement' in postwar Japan: its relevance for rural development today
- 5. Entrepreneurship and rural women's empowerment: some Japanese and Thai cases
- 6. Women's participation in politics and the women's movement: the history and background of recent successes of women candidates in local elections
- 7. Has socialism contributed to gender role changes? a comparison of gender roles in Cuba and Japan
- 8. Nation-state, family and gender: recent studies in Japan and Turkey
- 9. Factory women under globalization: incorporating Japanese women into the global factory debate