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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.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.

Domestic relations --- Women --- HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Families --- Family law --- Marriage --- Persons (Law) --- Sex and law --- Law and legislation --- 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. --- Korea --- History --- Japan