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Author_Sungyun Lim
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civil courts
civilization
colonial times
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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
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- ISBN 9780520302525
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Rules of the House offers a dynamic revisionist account of the Japanese colonial rule of Korea (1910–1945) by examining the roles of women in the civil courts. Challenging the dominant view that women were victimized by the Japanese family laws and its patriarchal biases, Sungyun Lim argues that Korean women had to struggle equally against Korean patriarchal interests. Moreover, women were not passive victims; instead, they proactively struggled to expand their rights by participating in the Japanese colonial legal system. In turn, the Japanese doctrine of promoting progressive legal rights would prove advantageous to them. Following female plaintiffs and their civil disputes from the precolonial Choson dynasty through colonial times and into postcolonial reforms, this book presents a new and groundbreaking story about Korean women’s legal struggles, revealing their surprising collaborative relationship with the colonial state.
Rules of the House offers a dynamic revisionist account of the Japanese colonial rule of Korea (1910–1945) by examining the roles of women in the civil courts. Challenging the dominant view that women were victimized by the Japanese family laws and its patriarchal biases, Sungyun Lim argues that Korean women had to struggle equally against Korean patriarchal interests. Moreover, women were not passive victims; instead, they proactively struggled to expand their rights by participating in the Japanese colonial legal system. In turn, the Japanese doctrine of promoting progressive legal rights would prove advantageous to them. Following female plaintiffs and their civil disputes from the precolonial Choson dynasty through colonial times and into postcolonial reforms, this book presents a new and groundbreaking story about Korean women’s legal struggles, revealing their surprising collaborative relationship with the colonial state.
Sungyun Lim is Assistant Professor of Modern Korean and Japanese History at the University of Colorado Boulder.
