Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Surname, Power, and Privilege
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Surname, Power, and Privilege
This book engages with gender hierarchy and structural inequality in Japanese society and examines the household register, koseki, one of the central structures shaping gender in Japan today.
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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.