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Home  › Publications  › APSA Journals  › Select Free Articles from APSA Journals  › Issues  › Women  › eSymposium: Women and Politics eSymposium: Women and Politics in Comparative Perspective An Open Boundaries Workshop 2004 eSymposium - Edited by Marian Lief Palley, University of Delaware The papers presented here, a result of the extremely successful Japanese American Women's Symposium, focus a fascinating lens on the study of women and politics both in the United States and in Japan.  More so, the lens casts the light of comparison on the very different, and very similar, issues affecting women in politics of both countries. "Introduction--An Open Boundaries Workshop: Women and Politics in Comparative Perspective" Editor: Marian Lief Palley (PS, Jan. 2004) "Incorporating Gender Equality at Local Politics: A Case of Toyonaka" Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru (PS, Jan. 2004) "Advance of Japanese Women in Politics: The General Local Election of 2003" Tokuko Ogai (PS, Jan. 2004) "Women Running for Congress: An Overview of the 2002 Elections" Julie Dolan (PS, Jan. 2004) "Women's Political Participation at the State and Local Level in the United States" M. Margaret Conway (PS, Jan. 2004) "Whatever Happened to the Year of the Woman: Lessons from the 1992 and 2002 Elections" Michele Swers (PS, Jan. 2004) "Women Running Locally: How Gender Affects School Board Elections" Melissa Deckman (PS, Jan. 2004) "The Governor's Race in Hokkaido: The Election of a Female Governor and its Impact" Masako Aiuchi (PS, Jan. 2004) "Has the Closed Door Opened for Women? The Appointment of Women Ministers in Japan" Yoshie Kobayashi (PS, Jan. 2004) "Gender, Party, and Political Change: The Evolution of a Democratic Advantage" Barbara Palmer, Dennis Simon (PS, Jan. 2004) "The Mother's Body Protection Act and the Contraceptive Pill: Reproductive Rights and Policy Making in Japan" Misako Iwamoto (PS, Jan. 2004) "Equal Employment in Contemporary Japan: A Structural Approach" Hiromi Tanaka (PS, Jan. 2004) "Engendered Violence: India in Comparative Perspective" Chiharu Takenaka (PS, Jan. 2004) "Equal Employment Policy in the United States" Joyce Gelb (PS, Jan. 2004) "Medicalization versus Demedicalization of Women's Health Care" Marian Lief Palley (PS, Jan. 2004) APSA journals are fully accessible online to APSA members and institutional subscribers.  For details, consult the membership pages of this site or information provided by your institution.  To view only the table of contents or abstracts from this or any of APSA's journals, please go our publisher's website: Cambridge University Press (http://journals.cambridge.org). These articles may be used for personal, non-commercial, or limited classroom use.  For permissions for all other uses of this article please contact Cambridge University Press at permissions@cup.org.