Abortion before Birth Control (eBook)

The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan

Tiana Norgren, Christiana Norgren (Autoren)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4386-2 (ISBN)

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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. This is a major contribution to the literature on reproductive rights and the role of civil society in a country usually discussed in the context of its industrial might.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 4 line illus., 4 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Abortion • abortion campaign of 1931 (Germany) • Abortion Debate • Abortion in Japan • Abortion in the United States • Abortion Law • Abortion rate • Abortion-rights movements • activism • Advocacy group • Agricultural Basic Law • Anti-abortion movements • Aoshiba no kai • Asia Josei Kaigi • Asian Institute • barrier birth control methods • Birth Control • birth rate • bureaucrat • Childbirth • Chūpiren • Civil Society • clinical trial • collective action theory • communism • Compulsory sterilization • condom • Contraceptive implant • contraceptive marketing • Cornell University Press • Corporatism • Criticism • Dai Nippon Seiyaku • Deliberation • demographic dividend • Demographic Transition • developed country • Domo to Akiko • Drug Bureau • dynamic constraints model • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Employment • Eugenic Protection Committee • Eugenics • familial feminism • Family planning • feedback effect • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Feminist Movement • fertility • Fortune Magazine • Fukuda Amano • gaiatsu strategy • Garon, Sheldon • Gordon, Linda • Hashimoto Ryūgo • health insurance • Hinoue Sadao • HIV Infection • Home Ministry • Housewife • Human overpopulation • Ichikawa Fusae • Ideology • illegal abortion • Indication (medicine) • infanticide • Intrauterine device • Iwamoto Misako • Jansson Yumiko • japanese people • Japan National Railways • Japan Teacher’s Union • Kanemaru Shin • LaFleur, William • League of Women Voters • left-wing politics • Legislation • Legislator • Legitimacy (political) • Leprosy • Liberalism • liberation movement • lobbying • Lower house • Lowi, Theodore • Majima Yutaka • Margaret Sanger • Maternal Health • Medical Affairs Bureau • midwife • midwives • Militarism • Ministry of Health and Welfare (Taiwan) • mother • Murakawa Ichiro • Nagai Sen • Nazi Party • Nazism • New Life Movement • New Life movement (1950s) • Nippon Times • Noriko Tsuya • nursing • Ogino, Miho • Opposition Party • Organon • Pamphlet • pharmaceutical drug • Pharmaceutical Industry • Physician • Planned Parenthood • Policy • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Population Growth • Postwar Japan • Potter, Joseph • Progressive Era • Provision (contracting) • Public Health • Public Health Council • Quinoform • relational feminism • Reproductive Health • Reproductive rights • right-wing politics • Saxton, Marsha • Searle • Sex Education • Shio Nogi • spermicide • spouse • state actor • Statism • Tanaka Kōtarō • Tax • Thalidomide • Unintended Pregnancy • University of California Press • University of Hawaii Press • Voting • welfare • Welfare State • Western Europe • Workforce • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4386-3 / 1400843863
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4386-2 / 9781400843862