in:
Journal of women's history
Bloomington:
2004
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10 - 29 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Wright, Diana E. |
| In: | Journal of women's history |
| Jahr: | 2004 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| One official response to the societal change Japan experienced during the Edo period (1603-1868) was the championing of patriarchal values through laws restricting bothfemale sexuality and autonomy. Despite this, when the punishments received by convicted women are compared to those prescribed by law, it becomes evident that while the appearance of Tokugawa law was that of a harsh, female-suppressing legal code, actual punishments were mitigated and relatively gender-blind. That women convicted ofcrimes increasingly appear in government records from the late eighteenth Century onward was not due simply to an ideo-logical bias against women, but was infact a reflection of the State's growing inability to control society in general. Women were morefre-quently convicted of anti-social behavior during the latter part of the Edo period because criminal activity, however defined, was a signifi-cant segment of women's "widefield of action." Economic consider-ations rather than ideological agendas were primary forces behind authorities' efforts to define and restrict women's sphere. | |
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