TY - BOOK ID - 103615100 TI - Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement AU - Dalton, Emma AU - Norma, Caroline PY - 2022 SN - 9811922276 9811922284 PB - Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Feminism KW - Women's rights. KW - Japan KW - Social conditions. KW - Rights of women KW - Women KW - Women's rights KW - Human rights KW - Civil rights KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Identity politics. KW - Sex. KW - Feminism. KW - Feminist theory. KW - Human rights. KW - Politics and Gender. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Feminism and Feminist Theory. KW - Politics and Human Rights. KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Feminist philosophy KW - Feminist sociology KW - Theory of feminism KW - Emancipation of women KW - Feminist movement KW - Women's lib KW - Women's liberation KW - Women's liberation movement KW - Women's movement KW - Social movements KW - Anti-feminism KW - Gender (Sex) KW - Human beings KW - Human sexuality KW - Sex (Gender) KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Sexuality KW - Sexology KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Politics of identity KW - Political participation KW - Philosophy KW - Emancipation KW - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103615100 AB - This book introduces six key influential feminist activists from Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and examines Japanese women’s experience of and contribution to the international #MeToo movement. Set against a backdrop of pervasive sexual inequality in Japanese society—on a scale that makes Japan an outlier in Asia as well as the rest of the advanced democratic world—this book offers a snapshot of Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and the issues it faces, including, primarily, sexual violence and harassment of women and girls. The six feminist activists interviewed to create this snapshot all work toward eradicating sexual violence against women and girls—they are: Kitahara Minori (instigator of the Flower Demo and public commentator), Yamamoto Jun (activist for sex crime law amendments), Nitō Yumeno (advocate for sexually exploited girls), Tsunoda Yukiko (feminist lawyer), Mitsui Mariko (former politician and current activist), and Yang-Ching-Ja (comfort women activist). Emma Dalton is lecturer in Japanese Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Sexual Harassment in Japanese Politics (2021) and Women and Politics in Contemporary Japan (2015). Caroline Norma lectures in the Master of Translating and Interpreting degree at RMIT University in Australia. She is the author of Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan (2018) and The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery During the China and Pacific Wars (2015). ER -