Hastings, Sally A. “A Dinner Party Is Not a Revolution: Space, Gender, and Hierarchy in Meiji Japan.” In Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan, edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Ninomiya Shuuhei. 2014. “The Koseki and Legal Gender Change.” In Japan's Household Registration System and Citizenship: Koseki, Identification and Documentation. London: Routledge. Pages: 169-186.

Maree, Claire. 2004. “Same-Sex Partnerships in Japan: Bypasses and Other Alternatives.” Women’s Studies 33(4): 541-549.

Optional film: First Personal Plural. 2000. Deann Borshay Liem, dir.

Harald Fuess. 2004. Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State 1600-2000. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Avoiding Law
Ellickson, Robert. 1991. Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pages: 1-136; 280-289, i.e. Introduction through Chapter 7, and Conclusion.

Family Law Dynamics
Merry, Sally Engle. 1990. Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness Among Working-Class Americans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 7 is optional.
Mnookin, Robert H, and Lewis Kornhauser. 1979. “Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce.” Yale Law Journal, 950–97.

Speaking Gender and Rights
Hirsch, Susan. Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourse of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are optional.

Causing Harm
Lazarus-Black, Mindie. 2007. Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Chapter 4 is optional.