Gender and the Koseki in Contemporary Japan: Surname, Power, and Privilege

ISBN-13: 9780367424206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 120 str.

Linda White

Opis

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, this book engages with issues of gender hierarchy and structural inequality in Japanese society. Studying several decades of feminist activism and critique of the koseki system, it analyses the strategies of activists who have creatively circumvented koseki rules.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Matter of Names and Why Names Matter 2. Separate Surname Activism 3. Common-law marriage as a form of koseki resistance 4. Illegitimacy and male privilege: the underlying logic of the koseki 5. Beyond the scope of the koseki: Families out of bounds