Linda White

Gender and the Koseki In Contemporary Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Surname, Power, and Privilege

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 to maintain their natal names in marriage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317201069
• Artikelnr.: 56837338

Autorenporträt

Linda White is Associate Professor and Chair of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, USA. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she has conducted ethnographic research with grassroots organizations in the Tokyo area during the past several decades.