Women's rights? : the politics of eugenic abortion in modern Japan /

This book analyses the debates between handicapped people's movement and women's movement in Japan about the issue of selective abortion focusing on the concept of 'right'.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kato, Masae, 1971-
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2009]
Series:	IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 2.
Subjects:	Geschichte 1970-2000 Abortion > Law and legislation > Japan. Eugenics > Japan. Prenatal diagnosis > Japan. Fetus > Abnormalities > Japan. Women's rights > Japan. People with disabilities > Civil rights > Japan. SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure. Law. Humanities. History. Society and social sciences. Society and culture: general. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General. Abortion > Law and legislation. Eugenics. Fetus > Abnormalities. People with disabilities > Civil rights. Prenatal diagnosis. Women's rights. Eugenische Indikation. Abortion, Eugenic > legislation & jurisprudence. Abortion, Eugenic > ethics. Civil Rights. Fetus > abnormalities. Prenatal Diagnosis > ethics. Women's Rights. Japan. Electronic books. Electronic book.
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Table of Contents:

1. Historical Background
2. Abortion Debates in the 1970s
3. On women's selfishness and the right to abortion
4. Abortion Debates in the 1980s
5. Analysis of the Discourse on the Concept of Individual, Political Rights in the 1980s
6. The Debate on the Notion of Individual, Political Rights after the Repeal of the Eugenic Protection Law
7. Liberated Individuals?
Conclusion
Appendices.