Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment

About the Author Takie Sugiyama Lebra is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i. From the Back Cover Japan, a decade behind the United States, is now expressing its awareness of women as a major social issue. This awareness manifests itself in floods of publications, television coverage, the burgeoning of women's studies groups, court rulings interfering with sex discrimination, appointments of women to prominent positions thus far reserved exclusively for men, admission of women to such institutions as the Self Defense Forces, police, athletics, and so on.