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Abortion before Birth Control The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan / Tiana Norgren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norgren, Christiana A. E., 1970-
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Studies of the East Asian Institute
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Family size.
- Birth control--Government policy.
- Abortion.
- Politics.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Contraception.
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- Abortion, Eugenic.
- Women's rights.
- Abortion, Legal.
- Legislation as Topic.
- Public Policy.
- History, 20th Century.
- People with disabilities.
- Oral contraceptives.
- Consumer Organizations.
- Chemicals and Drugs.
- Chemical Actions and Uses.
- Pharmacologic Actions.
- Physiological Effects of Drugs.
- Therapeutic Uses.
- Technology, Industry, Agriculture.
- Surgical Procedures, Operative.
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
- Medical care.
- Sociology.
- Reproductive Control Agents.
- Therapeutics.
- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture.
- Named Groups.
- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena.
- Humanities.
- Obstetric Surgical Procedures.
- Contraceptive Agents.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Policy.
- Social Control, Formal.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Persons.
- Social sciences.
- Industries.
- Reproductive technology.
- History.
- Human rights.
- Social Control Policies.
- Contraceptive Agents, Female.
- Women--Japan--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Family size--Japan.
- Birth control--Government policy--Japan.
- Birth control.
- Abortion--Japan.
- Japan.
- Japan--Social conditions--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 242 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. The Politics of Interests
- Ch. 3. For the Good of the Nation: Prewar Abortion and Contraception Policy
- Ch. 4. Japan Legalizes Abortion: The Intersection of National and Professional Interests
- Ch. 5. The Politics of Abortion: Movements to Revise the Eugenic Protection Law (1952-2000)
- Ch. 6. Abortion before Birth Control: Japanese Contraception Policy (1945-1960)
- Ch. 7. The Politics of the Pill (1955-2000)
- Ch. 8. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-231) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781400843862
- 1400843863
- OCLC:
- 298104993
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb04091 hdl
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