Rules of the house : family law and domestic disputes in colonial Korea /

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"Rules of the House offers a dynamic revisionist account of the Japanese colonial rule of Korea (1910-1945) through the lens of women in the civil courts. Challenging the dominant understanding that women were victimized by the Japanese family laws (i.e., the Meiji Civil Code) and its patriarch...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lim, Sungyun, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books.
Online access: Ubiquity Press Ubiquity Press Open Books.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Korea > 20th century.
Domestic relations > Korea > 20th century.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Domestic relations
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Korea > History > Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.
Corée > Histoire > 1910-1945 (Occupation japonaise)
Korea
civil courts.
civilization.
colonial times.
japan.
japanese colonial legal system.
japanese colonial rule of korea.
japanese family laws.
japanese motto.
korean women.
korean womens legal struggles.
meiji civil code.
passive victims.
patriarchal biases.
post colonial reforms.
pre colonial chosen dynasty.
promoting progress.
through the lens of women.
victimized women.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Widows on the margins of the family
  • Widowed household-heads and the new boundary of the family
  • Arguing for daughters? : inheritance rights
  • Conjugal love and conjugal family on trial
  • Consolidating the household across the 1945-divide.

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