Gender and Development: The Japanese Experience in Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Mayumi Murayama (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Series: IDE-JETRO Series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction: An Attempt to Integrate Gender and Development Issues of Japan and Developing Countries....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Economic Development and Gender Disparities: The Japanese Experience....Pages 23-39
Gender Perspectives in Family Planning: The Development of Family Planning in Postwar Japan and Policy Implications from the Japanese Experience....Pages 40-67
‘Livelihood Improvement’ in Postwar Japan: Its Relevance for Rural Development Today....Pages 68-84
Entrepreneurship and Rural Women’s Empowerment: Some Japanese and Thai Cases....Pages 85-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Women’s Participation in Politics and the Women’s Movement: The History and Background of Recent Successes of Women Candidates in Local Elections....Pages 119-151
Has Socialism Contributed to Gender Role Changes? A Comparison of Gender Roles in Cuba and Japan....Pages 152-203
Nation-state, Family and Gender: Recent Studies in Japan and Turkey....Pages 204-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Factory Women under Globalization: Incorporating Japanese Women into the Global Factory Debate....Pages 223-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-266

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies; Asian Economics; Social Policy; Development Economics; Labor Economics

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