Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks Tapa dura - 2004
de Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
Descripción de contraportada
The main purpose of this book is to revisit prevailing conceptions of the Japanese state--which tend to focus on bureaucratic dominance, party politics, and interest groups--and argue that these institutions cannot explain the extensive legal and political changes concerning women's and children's human rights since the late 1990s. Instead, the author advances a constructivist approach to examine the impact of global human rights norms on Japan. This approach is exceptional in linking gender, children, and minority rights to Japanese norms.
This book offers an up-to-date account of the changes since the 1990s. It also explores the issue of universalism versus cultural relativism within human rights and feminist debates. Instead of assuming that traditional Japanese culture is at odds with the individualistic and legalistic orientation of international human rights standards, the book discusses how Japanese civil society as well as state actors grapple with the rise of the individual, the new salience of law in resolving conflicts, the emergence of horizontal networks of cooperation, and the practice of "postnational citizenship."
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The main purpose of this book is to revisit prevailing conceptions of the Japanese state--which tend to focus on bureaucratic dominance, party politics, and interest groups--and argue that these institutions cannot explain the extensive legal and political changes concerning women's and children's human rights since the late 1990s. Instead, the author advances a constructivist approach to examine the impact of global human rights norms on Japan. This approach is exceptional in linking gender, children, and minority rights to Japanese norms.
This book offers an up-to-date account of the changes since the 1990s. It also explores the issue of universalism versus cultural relativism within human rights and feminist debates. Instead of assuming that traditional Japanese culture is at odds with the individualistic and legalistic orientation of international human rights standards, the book discusses how Japanese civil society as well as state actors grapple with the rise of the individual, the new salience of law in resolving conflicts, the emergence of horizontal networks of cooperation, and the practice of "postnational citizenship."
Detalles
- Título Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks
- Autor Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición 1st Edition
- Páginas 240
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Fecha de publicación 2004-07-28
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780804750226 / 080475022X
- Peso 1 libras (0.45 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.4 x 6.5 x 0.72 pulgadas (23.88 x 16.51 x 1.83 cm)
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Temas
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Women's rights - Japan, Children's rights - Japan
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2004006281
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.309
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