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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lim, Sungyun, 1977- Rules of the house. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] (DLC) 2018032111 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sungyun Lim |
ISBN: | 9780520302525 0520302524 |
OCLC Number: | 1043962906 |
Description: | xi, 173 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Widows on the margins of the family -- Widowed household-heads and the new boundary of the family -- Arguing for daughters' inheritance rights -- Conjugal love and conjugal family on trial -- Consolidating the household across the 1945 divide. |
Series Title: | Global Korea. |
Responsibility: | Sungyun Lim. |
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"Lim's clear and persuasive presentation of her findings and of its scholarly significance . . . makes this book a valuable contribution to the historiography of Korea. Its straightforward, accessible, and often compelling narrative also renders it attractive for adoption in both undergraduate and graduate courses." * Journal of Asian Studies * "[Lim writes] eloquently about the gendering of society and. . . . accomplish[es] what any scholarly book should do-that is, become the means to investigate, interrogate, and gain new perspectives . . . " * Cross-Currents * "[An] important contribution to our understanding of Japan's assimilation policy in Korea." * Journal of Japanese Studies * Read more...

