...Saskia E. Wieringa Kartini: Brieven aan Mevrouw R. M. Abendanon-Mandri en haar echtgenoot . [Kartini: Letters to Mrs. R. M. Abendanon-Mandri and her husband] . Edited by F. G. P. Jaquet . Dordrecht, Holland : Foris Publications , 1987 . xxiv, 387 pp. Copyright © The Association...

...Charles F. McKhann A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China . By Cai Hua . Translated by Asti Hustvedt . New York : Zone Books , 2000 . 505 pp. $33.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 225 by the Chinese...

...Robert L. Moore Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China . Edited by Deborah S. Davis and Sara L. Friedman . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2014 . xii, 326 pp. ISBN: 9780804790628 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

... Abstract The Journal of Asian Studies wishes to acknowledge the following error which appeared in the review of Life in a Leyte Village , page 357 of the February 1967 issue. The reviewer reported that a wife often acts succorantly toward her husband but not toward her father or mother. Author...

... and irrelevant aspects of politics” (Lane 1959, 213). Many argued that women had a different political view than did men: they were apolitical, they personalized politics, and they adopted their husbands' political orientations. Accordingly, they became political leaders only by default, as substitutes...

... crucial; successful immigrants were given great responsibilities and corresponding rewards as servants of the throne, and at all levels of the social scale were welcomed as husbands and sons-in-law. Though greatly altered by modern nationalisms on both sides, the mutual openness of Thai and Chinese has...

... the corpse had lain in its coffin seven days before, a crude trough had been scratched into the earth, with a shallow hole at the end where the corpse's mouth had been. The dead woman's daughter, her husband's sisters and their daughters, and some of their female friends sat on benches on either side...

... translations, the largest share belongs to Panda Books, a publishing subunit of the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. Under the leadership of the Yangs (Xianyi and Gladys), a husband-and-wife team of great renown, this new Panda series has published more than a dozen titles as of 1984, and new ones continue...

...Fei-Wen Liu Abstract These words were expressed by Gangzhen and Cizhu, two peasant women born in the early twentieth century who lived in two villages in Jiangyong County of Hunan Province in southern China. When confronted with the loss of their husbands, these women relied on local tools familiar...

... on the part of the wife was always adultery in the criminal sense, unfaithfulness on the part of the husband was adultery only when the other party was a married woman. The amended penal code no longer considers adultery a punishable crime in either case. 17 It is important to distinguish this right...

... remarriage, providing hypothetical scenarios for the woman's children to inherit and divide her and her late husband's property. In one scenario, the statute specified the procedure if the woman conceived a son in the first marriage and a daughter in the second marriage. In that instance, “upon the latter...

... widows whose husbands had died in the atomic holocaust. Most of the widows were in their eighties, but they recalled vividly that fateful day. The interviews run from several to a dozen pages. The women talked not only about the atomic explosion but also about their earlier experiences and the hard lives...

... to see the mother of the child, a custom which is common among so-called primitive peoples. Crawley states, "Separation between husband and wife at birth is often prolonged until the child is weaned, the idea being that milk, a female secretion, is a specially dangerous vehicle for transmission of her...

..., Sacrifice, and Marriage: The Modernity of Tradition") illuminate the options women have and more frequently lack, as widows. Wadley's vivid life histories make it clear that women are at every level dependent on males for livelihood and support; once their husbands die, they are in dire straits without sons...

... and their husbands' siblings. See Bertaux (1995, 75-78) on the history of sociocentered (vs. ego-centered) genealogies. 3I follow those neo-Marxists and neo-Weberians who pay attention to the nonmarket aspects of class, including both consumption and expression, and who consider the interrelationship between class...

... Ibid., pp. 24–29. 64 Ibid., p. 58. The two words go together as boa-thuan (peace, harmony and concord), the compound often symbolizing ideal husband-wife relations. However, it was always clear that the first half was initiator, coordinator; the second half, follower or recipient. 65...

... of this article appears in my Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, 1994. For their support and critique of this study I would like to thank my husband Jiyul Kim, Sharon Stephens, Marshall Sahlins, Paul Friedrich, Ezra Vogel, and Bruce Cumings. I am also grateful to two anonymous...

... or in land would be left up to the discretion of their fathers and brothers. After her marriage, Tyagaraja Iyer adds, a woman would acquire legal rights upon her husband and his family for her maintenance and thus did not require equal ownership rights with her brothers (Government of Madras Order No. 174...

.... The study is based upon interviews undertaken in 1979 and in 1984, with wives and husbands in 450 households, half of which had employed women 444 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ("dual-earner" families) and half of which did not ("single-earner" families). Throughout the study single-earner wives and husbands...

.... Thus, when husbands killed their wives, the wives were frequently portrayed as “shrews” who cursed their husbands' parents. As a result, the husbands were cast in the light of both offender and victim and often enjoyed reduced sentences after higher-level review. Janet Theiss continues the story...