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

Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (139 pages) Series Routledge Contemporary Japan Ser Routledge Contemporary Japan Ser Contents Cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction and chapter overviews; 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; Epilogue: December 20, 2017; Appendix I: Association (Koryukai) timeline; Glossary; Bibliography; Index Notes Print version record Subject Registers of births, etc. -- Japan Names, Personal -- Law and legislation -- Japan Recording and registration -- Japan Acknowledgment of children -- Japan Illegitimacy -- Japan Recording and registration -- Social aspects -- Japan Ethnology -- Japan. Acknowledgment of children Ethnology Illegitimacy Names, Personal -- Law and legislation Recording and registration Recording and registration -- Social aspects Registers of births, etc. SUBJECT Japan -- Registers Subject Japan Genre/Form Registers (Lists) Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317201069 131720106X

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