Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan /

Abortion has been practiced throughout Japanese history and, since its postwar legalization, has come to be widely accepted. Its legal status is not under attack. Contemporary religious groups do not mobilize against it, nor do political parties compose their platforms around the issue. Yet in the 1...

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Auteur principal: Hardacre, Helen, 1949-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ©1999.
Collection:Twentieth-century Japan ; 7.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973124
Table des matières:
  • 1. Reproductive Ritualization Before Mizuko Kuyo
  • 2. The Practice of Mizuko Kuyo and the Changing Nature of Abortion
  • 3. Abortion in Contemporary Sexual Culture
  • 4. The Practitioners of Mizuko Kuyo
  • 5. Mizuko Kuyo in Four Locales
  • App. Sectarian Patterns in Mizuko Kuyo.