Rules of the House

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 Ko