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This chapter reflects on how the Jesuits translated practices related to repudiation and divorce in early modern Japan, in cases in which at least one spouse was Christian. The chapter’s analyses are based on missionary writings, moral theology, and canon law, as well as theological discussions and case studies, and Japanese legal sources. It systematizes—and outlines a typology of—missionaries’ descriptions of repudiation and divorce, taking into consideration normativities and knowledge production in the Early Modern period. Treating the missionaries’ reports as translations, it then uses Japanese sources to offer alternative interpretations of the described cases of repudiation and divorce. The chapter takes a novel approach in employing women’s legal history to shift the protagonism in the cases described, denouncing the invisibilization of women in history writing.

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Women in Repudiation and Divorce Cases in the Christian Mission: Jesuit Translation Strategies and Normativities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan

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  • Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva

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This chapter reflects on how the Jesuits translated practices related to repudiation and divorce in early modern Japan, in cases in which at least one spouse was Christian. The chapter’s analyses are based on missionary writings, moral theology, and canon law, as well as theological discussions and case studies, and Japanese legal sources. It systematizes—and outlines a typology of—missionaries’ descriptions of repudiation and divorce, taking into consideration normativities and knowledge production in the Early Modern period. Treating the missionaries’ reports as translations, it then uses Japanese sources to offer alternative interpretations of the described cases of repudiation and divorce. The chapter takes a novel approach in employing women’s legal history to shift the protagonism in the cases described, denouncing the invisibilization of women in history writing.