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Publication Announcement

An Innovative Study On The Abortion Debate In Japan

20 March 2009 Amsterdam University Press

• Publication title: Women’s Rights? The Politics of Eugenic Abortion in Modern Japan
• Author: Masae Kato
• Publication type: Book (Paperback)
• Publication date: 26 February 2009
• Number of pages: 342
• ISBN number: 9789053567937
• Price: 37.50 EUR Euros

The history of abortion debate, feminism and handicapped people’s movement in Japan has hardly been researched in English. Moreover, no book about Japanese feminism has explored the concept of ‘right’ – how this concept has played a role to cause disagreement and misunderstanding between movements of handicapped people and women, regarding the issue of selective abortion in Japan.  The author ambitiously attempts to de-Westernize and de-masculinize the concept of ‘right’ by theorizing how these two movements understood, supported and practiced the term ‘right’.

Masae Kato is research fellow in the Socio-Genetic Marginalisation in Asia Programme (SMAP) at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University.