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...Paize Keulemans Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity . By Keith McMahon . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2010 . vii , 215 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 In Polygamy...

...Keith McMahon Abstract This study examines Chinese imperial polygamy under two aspects, as institution and actual practice. Institution refers to its existence as a set of rules and expectations, practice to the actual ways in which imperial people carried out polygamy as recorded in both...

... classificatory sections, special subsections have been developed to identify the sources that deal specifically with the role and status of women in Korean society. To give some indication of how the various systems of classification might be used, let us take as an example the subject of polygamy in Korean...

.... Discourses against prostitution were tinged with a sense of nationalism: prostitution was inimical to Thailand s international image as a civilized nation. Another theme is polygamy as a social context that embodies class and gender relations and double standards of morality for men and women. A third theme...

... are "the beauties and scholars, who each contain the other in cross-gendered symmetry, each having the looks or taking on the attributes of the other" (p. 14). McMahon sees polygamy as a major issue in early Qing fiction. Polygamy was, of course, a well-established practice in China, available to any man who wanted...

... framings of polygamy and “managed his heart” through Psikologi Islam , but he lost his television spot and never recovered to the fame he once had. This fall is not simply an indication of Indonesian popular opinion about polygamy, but rather, as Hoesterey argues, is revealing of the “economic...

... polygamy (p. 33) practiced by Koreans was mainly an upper class phenomenon and was not typical of the whole society. Moreover, it was not real polygamy, but a plurality of mates, only one having the status of wife. Also Korean women had more influence in the home than the author indicates (p. 33...

... with the Abendanons has now been published; it yields a different picture of Kartini. It was already known that Kartini abhorred polygamy. Now we can read how much as a child she had suffered under the practice. Her own mother is not the Mama to whom she refers in her letters but a secondary wife of her father...

..., transfers, and promotions for their male relatives. In the 1911 publication, J. H. Abendanon had introduced readers to the public Kartini: the young woman who thought seriously on such issues as polygamy, child marriage, vocational education, the role of women as mothers, and racial discord in colonial life...

... with the Abendanons has now been published; it yields a different picture of Kartini. It was already known that Kartini abhorred polygamy. Now we can read how much as a child she had suffered under the practice. Her own mother is not the Mama to whom she refers in her letters but a secondary wife of her father...

... . Cambridge : Polity Press . Chomchai Prachoom . 1965 . Chulalongkorn the Great . Tokyo : The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies . Reynolds Craig J. 1977 . “A Nineteenth-Century Thai Buddhist Defense of Polygamy and Some Remarks on the Social History of Women in Thailand...

... indication of the lengths courts are willing to go to avoid the consequences of Hyde v. Hyde . See also Shahnaz v. Rizwan [ 1964 ] 2 All E.R. 993 enforcing a contract for deferred mehar or dower in an English court, arising out of a potentially polygamous marriage. See P. R. H. Webb, “Polygamy...

... symmetry, each having the looks or taking on the attributes of the other" (p. 14). McMahon sees polygamy as a major issue in early Qing fiction. Polygamy was, of course, a well-established practice in China, available to any man who wanted and could afford it. Prescriptive Confucian texts, medical books...

... by 9 of 1967). However, the problem of polygamy linked with considerations of domicile may still give rise to problems in Singapore Courts. 42 See also the statement of Lord Herschell in Clarke v. Dunraven [1897] A.C. 59 at 63 … “undertaking to be bound by … rules to the knowledge of each...

... to organize, was advocated. Polygamy, the immorality and extravagance of elite males, the unfairness of existing marriage and divorce laws, and prostitution continued to be criticized. Sympathy for the poor and working class and advocacy for respect for human dignity were articulated. Nationalist images...

... 348 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES study. They do perhaps point up the fact later checked by legislation. No true picture of that though ancient Indian political thought Indian society can possibly emerge by citing- and institutions have been better studied than the evidences of slavery, polygamy, child mar...

... a focus on domestic violence and polygamy to contesting Islamic family law, challenging the institutionalization of conservative versions of Shariah law in some Malaysian states, and working for greater religious freedom in Malaysia. Most recently, SIS helped to found the transnational network Musawah...

...-century notarial records ( protocolos ), Chu explores patterns and strategies of religious conversion and practice (including naming and burial rites), marriage (including “consensual unions” and “polygyny/polygamy”), inheritance, gender relations, education, citizenship, and residential and household...

... and correlations which fill this volume. Inevitably, a few queries arise as to Jones's use of anthropological concepts, e.g., "polygamy" for "polygyny," some evolutionary ideas of kinship, and the inconsistency in the spelling of syari'ahhhari'ah, but these do not diminish the real contribution...

... to the country's development policies, and not from the more developed Malaysia. It is impossible to do full justice to the intricate arguments and correlations which fill this volume. Inevitably, a few queries arise as to Jones's use of anthropological concepts, e.g., "polygamy" for "polygyny," some evolutionary...