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Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity And Women In Kankyo No Tomo, Yuko Mizue
Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity And Women In Kankyo No Tomo, Yuko Mizue
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This thesis consists of research on women and Buddhism in light of a medieval Japanese Buddhist tales collection called Kankyo no Ｔomo. This collection reveals the predicament in which women in medieval Japan found themselves. As the focus of sexual desire (towards them and by them), they were also inherently polluted due to their connection with blood (kegare).
From The Crisis Of Distribution To The Distribution Of The Costs Of The Crisis: What Can We Learn From Previous Crises About The Effects Of The Financial Crisis On Labor Share?, Özlem Onaran
PERI Working Papers
The paper analyzes the possible distributional consequences of the global crisis based on the lessons of the past crises experiences. The decline in the labor share across the globe has been a major factor that led to the current global crisis. What we are going through is a crisis of distribution, and similarly the policy reactions to the crisis are part of a distributional struggle. The paper presents the effects of the former crises in the developing countries and in Japan on income distribution, wages, and unemployment. This comparison is important not only because it compares developing vs. developed country …