TY - BOOK ID - 137314122 TI - Abortion before Birth Control : The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan AU - Norgren, Christiana A. E. AU - American Council of Learned Societies. PY - 2001 SN - 1400843863 PB - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Politics. KW - Drug Industry. KW - Contraception. KW - History of Medicine. KW - Abortion, Eugenic. KW - Women's Rights. KW - Abortion, Legal. KW - Legislation as Topic. KW - Public Policy. KW - History, 20th Century. KW - Disabled Persons. KW - Contraceptives, Oral. KW - Consumer Organizations. KW - Chemicals and Drugs KW - Chemical Actions and Uses KW - Pharmacologic Actions KW - Physiological Effects of Drugs KW - Therapeutic Uses KW - Technology, Industry, Agriculture KW - Surgical Procedures, Operative. KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Delivery of Health Care. KW - Sociology. KW - Reproductive Control Agents. KW - Therapeutics. KW - Technology, Industry, and Agriculture KW - Named Groups KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Humanities. KW - Obstetric Surgical Procedures. KW - Contraceptive Agents. KW - Health Care Economics and Organizations KW - Policy. KW - Social Control, Formal. KW - History, Modern 1601-. KW - Organizations. KW - Persons KW - Social Sciences. KW - Industry. KW - Reproductive Techniques. KW - Abortion, Induced. KW - History. KW - Human Rights. KW - Social Control Policies. KW - Contraceptive Agents, Female. KW - Women KW - Family size KW - Birth control KW - Abortion KW - Social conditions. KW - Government policy KW - Japan. KW - Japan KW - Social conditions KW - Agricultural Basic Law. KW - Aoshiba no kai. KW - Asia Josei Kaigi. KW - Chūpiren. KW - Dai Nippon Seiyaku. KW - Domo to Akiko. KW - Drug Bureau. KW - Eugenic Protection Committee. KW - Fortune magazine. KW - Fukuda Amano. KW - Garon, Sheldon. KW - Gordon, Linda. KW - HIV infection. KW - Hashimoto Ryūgo. KW - Hinoue Sadao. KW - Ichikawa Fusae. KW - Iwamoto Misako. KW - Jansson Yumiko. KW - Japan National Railways. KW - Japan Teacher’s Union. KW - Kanemaru Shin. KW - LaFleur, William. KW - Lowi, Theodore. KW - Majima Yutaka. KW - Medical Affairs Bureau. KW - Murakawa Ichiro. KW - Nagai Sen. KW - New Life movement (1950s). KW - Nippon Times. KW - Noriko Tsuya. KW - Ogino, Miho. KW - Organon. KW - Potter, Joseph. KW - Progressive Era. KW - Public Health Council. KW - Quinoform. KW - Saxton, Marsha. KW - Searle. KW - Shio Nogi. KW - Tanaka Kōtarō. KW - abortion campaign of 1931 (Germany). KW - barrier birth control methods. KW - collective action theory. KW - contraceptive marketing. KW - corporatism. KW - dynamic constraints model. KW - familial feminism. KW - feedback effect. KW - gaiatsu strategy. KW - midwives. KW - relational feminism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137314122 AB - Why has postwar Japanese abortion policy been relatively progressive, while contraception policy has been relatively conservative? The Japanese government legalized abortion in 1948 but did not approve the pill until 1999. In this carefully researched study, Tiana Norgren argues that these contradictory policies flowed from very different historical circumstances and interest group configurations. Doctors and family planners used a small window of opportunity during the Occupation to legalize abortion, and afterwards, doctors and women battled religious groups to uphold the law. The pill, on the other hand, first appeared at an inauspicious moment in history. Until circumstances began to change in the mid-1980s, the pharmaceutical industry was the pill's lone champion: doctors, midwives, family planners, and women all opposed the pill as a potential threat to their livelihoods, abortion rights, and women's health. Clearly written and interwoven with often surprising facts about Japanese history and politics, Norgren's book fills vital gaps in the cross-national literature on the politics of reproduction, a subject that has received more attention in the European and American contexts. Abortion Before Birth Control will be a valuable resource for those interested in abortion and contraception policies, gender studies, modern Japanese history, political science, and public policy. ER -