Dear Colleagues;



I'm delighted to announce that Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan has just been released (ed. Gill Steel, University of Michigan Press).



Please find information in brief below. I hope you will find it interesting and consider this mixed methods approach as a book for courses on politics, society, and gender.


Discount code (limited time only!): UMSTEELKYOTO

https://www.press.umich.edu/10028271/beyond_the_gender_gap_in_japan



Best regards,

Gill Steel



Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan asks: why do Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of inequality? The authors do not analyze subjective measures of well-being, instead, they examine various aspects of the lived experiences of women. Two common themes emerge: first, the blurring of "the public" and "the private" in postwar Japan has constrained individuals' lives in various ways. The second major theme is that despite these constraints, Japan is changing and a diversity of experience now exists among Japanese women that is not fully captured by conventional measures of gender equality. This research uncovers change across social and political life, but we also find that this change is not uniform, while some areas have experienced rapid change, other areas have experienced virtually none.



Introduction

The Public and the Private: Changing Women's and Men's Lives in Japan
Gill Steel



SECTION 1

How Women Live (and Want to Live)

1. Women's Work at Home and in the Workplace

Gill Steel

2. Busy, Happy, and Withdrawn: Japanese Women's Constrained Leisure Choices
Mito Akiyoshi

3. Why Women Won't Wed

Kumiko Nemoto

4. Working Women's Husbands as Helpers or Partners
Yuko Ogasawara



SECTION II

How and Why Women Participate in Politics

5. The Politics of Care and Community: Women and Civil Society in Japan

Linda Hasunuma

6. The "Silent Majority" Speaks Out: Conservative Women Defending Convention

Kimiko Osawa

7. Women and the Liberal Democratic Party in Transition
Yuki Tsuji

8. Tokyo's First Female Governor Breaks the Steel Ceiling

Susan Pavloska



SECTION III

How Public Policy Tries to Influence 'Private' Behavior

9. 'Life' as a Political Agenda

Hiroko Takeda

10. One Size Fits All? The Implications of Differences in Regional Fertility for Public Policy

Mayumi Nakamura

11. Japan's Womenomics Diplomacy

Liv Coleman



SECTION IV

Uneven Change in Women's Representation

12. Japan's Growing Base of Women in Elected Office
Sherry Martin

13. Staffing the State with Women
Gregory W. Noble

14. Changing Legislature, Changing Politics: Quotas, Electoral Systems, and Political Representation

Yoshiaki Kobayashi and Yuta Kamahara