{"product_id":"divorce-in-japan-family-gender-and-the-state-16002000-9780804743570","title":"Divorce in Japan  Family Gender and the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA social, legal, and intellectual history of divorce in Japan over the last four centuries, during much of which Japan had one of the highest divorce rates in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...This book is a must-read for social scientists with research interests in the areas of gender, marriage and the family, and demography.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Sociology Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In providing a detailed analysis of the gender dynamics of marriage, moreover, [Fuess] illuminates the shifting position of women within the family and marriage, pertinent to many discussions of contemporary Japanese society.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[This book] is a rich resource that will provide the starting point for much new research and will be widely cited by anyone writing on divorce and marriage in Japan.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Japanese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDivorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000\u003c\/i\u003e, Harald Fuess presents a careful and very accessible description of the social and political context of Japan's historically very high rates of divorce, their subsequent decline to very low levels, and their recent return to levels on par with most other industrialized societies. This book is a welcome addition to the very limited English-language literature on divorce in Japan....the central themes in this historical overview of divorce in Japan should be of broad interest to all sociologists.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This fine interdisciplinary treatment of divorce should be useful to those in family studies, comparative social sciences, and institutional and legal historians, in addition to the obvious contribution it makes to Japanese area studies, for undergraduate and graduate courses alike.\" -- \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDivorce in Japan\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Japan, not just for what it reveals about divorce, marriage, and family, but for the comprehensive use of materials and its theoretical underpinnings. Fuess is to be commended for his meticulous methods of interpretation and his expression of compelling findings in a clear, unequivocal prose style.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  \tAcknowledgments\txiii  \tNote on Japanese Names\txv  1.\tThe Forgotten History of Japanese Divorce\t1  When Japan Led the World in Divorce, 1--Competing   Interpretations of Traditional High Divorce Rates, 6--A   New History of Japanese Divorce, 9--Changing Definitions   of Marriage and Divorce, 11--Sources, 15  2.\tFor the Sake of the House: Edo-Period Patterns, Perceptions,   and Precedents\t18  Divorce Across Status and Domain Boundaries, 21--\"No-  Fault\" Divorce in Popular Plays, 25--Magistrates in Support of   Household Authority, 29--Merciful Buddhist Temples: An   Alternative Venue for Divorce Negotiations, 39--Household   Status Versus Sex, 44  3.\tTesting a Spouse: The Trial Marriage System\t47  Meiji Marriage Ambiguities, 48--The Frequency of Divorce in   the Meiji Era, 57--Multiple Remarriage Opportunities, 67--  The Trial Marriage System and Household Survival, 72  4.\tUnsuitable to the Family Tradition? Popular Divorce   Customs in the 1870s\t75  Obtaining a Customary Consent Divorce, 76--The Terms of   Customary Consent Divorce, 82--Life After Divorce, 96--  Evidence of Female Divorce Initiatives, 96--Early Modern   Divorce Revisited, 98  5.\tBetween French Law and Japanese Customs: Codifying   Divorce in Meiji Japan\t100  Intellectual Interpretations of Divorce in the 1870s and the   1880s, 102--The Napoleonic Code and the Early Codification   Process, 1873-1887, 105--The Backlash Against \"French\"   Divorce, 1887-1892, 109--Reaffirming the Dual Divorce   System, 1892-  1898, 110--The Civil Code of 1898: Divorce, Family, and   Gender, 114  6.\tWhen Marriage Was on the Rise: Declining Divorce Rates,   1898-1940\t119  Legislation and the Precipitous Drop in Divorce, 1897-1899,   120--The Gradual Decline, 1900-1940, 128  7.\tForward to the Past: A Historical Perspective on Japanese   Divorce After World War II\t144  Legislative Reform During the American Occupation, 145--  The 1960s Revolution in Japanese Divorce Behavior, 152--The   Return of the Divorcing Society in the 1990s, , 161  \tAppendix\t169  \tNotes\t175  \tSelect Bibliography\t211  \tIndex\t223        Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Divorce Japan History, Domestic relations Japan","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405549838679,"sku":"9780804743570","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804743570.jpg?v=1730492797","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/divorce-in-japan-family-gender-and-the-state-16002000-9780804743570","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}