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INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN, FAMILY AND INHERITANCE IN CHINA AND JAPAN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2004

Jack Goody
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge E-mail [email protected]

Extract

Both papers in this section are concerned with issues of women's access to property and marriage in the medieval period, McDermott's with China (and in particular the study by Bettine Birge), and Kurushima's with Japan (and more especially with the marriage strategies of a political kind among the élite).

Type
Gender in Asian History
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2004

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