Dangerous Women

Gender and Korean Nationalism
Herausgeber: Kim, Elaine H; Choi, Chungmoo

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Produktbeschreibung

"Dangerous Women" addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean "nation." Leading scholars discuss how Korea, as a result of years of foreign domination, can still be seen as an "imaginary" and "gendered" nation--as a metaphor, even, for Korean women both there and abroad. Together, these essays explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. Yet Korean women are not configured here merely as metaphors for an emasculated and enfantilized "homeland." They are also shown to be by-products of a problematic gender construction that originates in Korea, and extends even today to Korean communities beyond Asia. Representations of Korean women still attempt to confine them to the status of either mother or prostitute: "Dangerous Women" rectifies that construction, offering a feminist interventionthat might recuperate womanhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780415915052
• ISBN-10: 0415915058
• Artikelnr.: 21277811

Autorenporträt

Elaine Kim is Professor of Asian American Studies and Chair of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Chungmoo Choi is Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Elaine H. Kim and Chungmoo Choi
Introduction 2. Chungmoo Choi
Nationalism and Construction of Gender in Korea 3. Seungsook Moon
Begetting the Nation: The Androcentric Discourse of National History and Tradition in South Korea 4. Elaine H. Kim
Men's Talk: A Korean American View of South Korean Constructions of Women, Gender, and Masculinity 5. Yong Soon Min
Kindred Distance (Photo Essay) 6. Hyunah Yang
Re
membering the Korean Military Comfort Women: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Silencing 7. Katharine H.S. Moon
Prostitute Bodies and Gendered States in U.S.
Korea Relations 8. Hyun Sook Kim
Yanggongju as an Allegory of the Nation: Images of Working
Class Women in Popular and Radical Texts 9. (Island in the Wind) You
me Park
Working Women and the Ontology of the Collective Subject: (Post)Coloniality and the Representation of Female Subjectivities in Hyon Kiyong's Paramtanun Som 10. Yong Soon Min
Mother Load (Photo Essay) 11. Hyun Ok Park
Ideals of Liberation: Korean Women in Manchuria 12. Hyun Yi Kang
Re
membering Home 13. Helen Lee
A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema Lee