Rules of the house family law and domestic disputes in colonial Korea
"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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2018, [2018]©2018
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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