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SUMMARY:Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband and His Family Puts Him in a
  Cage - Professor Luke Roberts (UC Santa Barbara)
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DESCRIPTION:In 1824 a young newlywed samurai woman of Kōchi castle town i
 n southwestern Japan named Mori Nao wanted to divorce her samurai husband 
 because she did not like him. Nao's husband adamantly refused to give her 
 a divorce and the legal system said that only a man had the right and priv
 ilege to do so. After overcoming some resistance from her own family\, she
  was able to get them on her side\, and then her husband's family on her s
 ide and finally even the government of her domain allied with her and pres
 sured him to divorce her.  His relatives forced the divorce and put him in
  a cage in his back yard for some months\, even though he had been defendi
 ng his legal prerogative. \n\nProfessor Roberts’s talk examines gender a
 nd the legal system by focusing on its functioning rather than the letter 
 of the law\, and also examines gender relations of a samurai family in its
  social context based on the rich sources that exist for this incident.\n\
 nSpeakers:\nProfessor Luke Roberts (UC Santa Barbara)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room\, 4th Floor\, Gateway Building
 \, St Antony's College)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/7f4a3f0e-72a4-41df-8835-4be1ef08c6b4/
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