Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Japanese feminism and gender history. This new volume brings to light Japan's feminist public sphere, a discursive

Rethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the p

Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for y

An insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women.

This book examines the impact of global human rights norms on the development of women's, children's, and minority rights in Japan since the early 1990s.