... 15 percent). Despite mixed reviews in the press, he has won a series of elections, and in politics that is what counts (Kingston 2018b). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Asahi censorship comfort women Fukushima Japan #MeToo press freedom sexual harassment...

... on the basis of their sex (and their ethnicity during the colonial period) while also exposing themselves to ruthless sexual harassment and violence. Barraclough's sensitive and critical analysis walks us through various moments in which factory girls' sexuality showed its contradictions and complexities...

... and bhakti in the Rām Carit Mānas , following her husband into a difficult exile. In chapter 6, Pauwels does note that even Sītā's actions are not always ideal; she can also, along with Rādhā, serve as the example of modern women who bring down on themselves “eve-teasing,” or sexual harassment, by crossing...

... image of the self-sacrificing woman, and to the daughter-in-law as "the larval stage of the mother-in-law" (p. 106) are somewhat out of date: young and middle-aged women are expressing their independence in new and direct ways: the young, by resisting or delaying marriage, protesting sexual harassment...

... then, is responsive change from the courts, from corporations and in the views of policy commentators from the media and academe (p. 151). Using sexual harassment as an example, Leon Wolf questions whether Japan s reform agenda led to a better policy outcome for Japanese women. There is a shift from the state...

... such as sexual harassment, an emerging issue in Japan. Finally, what of actual resistance by women in some corporations, embodied in such organizations as the Osaka-based Working Women's Network and litigation by female employees to protest biased treatment? What are the circumstances that permit some women...

... procedures; a retrospective of the 1989 national elections emphasizing the growing criminalization of the political process at all levels, the lack of a women's agenda in the platform of political parties and the election of fewer women to public office; sexual harassment and slander of women in the public...

... (something which seems to be prevalent as alluded to by a male officer) nor stories of rape and other forms of sexual harassment (which have been exposed recently as being widespread in many militaries). Hilsdon observes that many of the women trainees came from military families, but she fails to explore...

... and Malathi de Alwis argue in their chapter on the contingent politics of the women s movement that the rapid militarization of Sri Lankan society has triggered a marked increase in violence against women, be it rape, sexual harassment or domestic violence (p. 263). In the face of such raw violence, despite...

... they suffered were multiple: not only low wages, but long hours through the night; crowded, imprisoning housing; miserly food; tattered clothing; negligent health care, and sexual harassment. The two final chapters attempt to measure the extent of that oppression by comparing the health of factory workers...

... sexual discrimination or sexual harassment in the workplace. Liew and Leong balance their discussion by adding that in certain instances, women enjoy legal privileges denied men. For example, it is an offense for a man to "entice away a married woman from her husband. But there is no corresponding...

... the Uyghur diaspora prefers to call East Turkestan. Documented atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples include detention in a huge network of internment camps, intense surveillance, seizure of children, rape, and sexual harassment. 1 Seven Western countries have already called China's crimes...

.... By contrast, the concerns of the Bombay women's movement violence against women, sexual harassment, safe contraception, and amniocentesis are more familiar to feminists. The differences between the two movements cannot be explained socioeconomically, Ray argues, but rather by the relationship between power...

... Zuoren quarrel, in which she seems now to have charged sexual harassment on Lu Xun s part? (McDougall tells us that there is no evidence for this charge, at least not in the correspondence, original or edited [see p. 150 In keeping with their own ideas on personal space, Lu Xun tends not to discuss his...

... criminalization of the political process at all levels, the lack of a women's agenda in the platform of political parties and the election of fewer women to public office; sexual harassment and slander of women in the public sphere and more particularly in the workplace; Indian elites' fascination...

... of gender-based power struggles such as sexual harassment, an emerging issue in Japan. Finally, what of actual resistance by women in some corporations, embodied in such organizations as the Osaka-based Working Women's Network and litigation by female employees to protest biased treatment? What...

... stories of rape and other forms of sexual harassment (which have been exposed recently as being widespread in many militaries). Hilsdon observes that many of the women trainees came from military families, but she fails to explore further the nature of this type of kinship inside the military. The AFP...

... stage of the mother-in-law" (p. 106) are somewhat out of date: young and middle-aged women are expressing their independence in new and direct ways: the young, by resisting or delaying marriage, protesting sexual harassment, and pursuing careers; the middle aged, by divorcing a dependent, retired...

... quick to make a grab for it, getting a new deed drawn up in April 1937, less than half a year after Lu Xun s death [2002, p. 74 Could that also have been what was behind Nobuko s pivotal role in the infamous Lu Xun Zhou Zuoren quarrel, in which she seems now to have charged sexual harassment on Lu Xun s...

... of General Workers–Tokyo. Impatient with the indifference of traditional unions to women's issues and fed up with sexual harassment within leftist movements, the two participated in the establishment of the Women's Union Tokyo. The fact that all three of these books were published by university presses...