Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan (eBook, PDF)

Sexing Class
Redaktion: Barraclough, Ruth; Faison, Elyssa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores gender, labour and class in Korea and Japan, both during the twentieth century and today. It shows how sexuality is inscribed in working-class identities, demonstrating that sexual and labor relations have been crucial factors in shaping the cultures of industrialization in both Japan and Korea.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135219826
• Artikelnr.: 43071929

Autorenporträt

Ruth Barraclough teaches modern Korean history and literature at the Australian National University. She is currently working on her book: Korean Factory Girls: Capitalism and the Seductions of Literature. Elyssa Faison is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Managing Women: Disciplining Labour in Modern Japan. Her current research interests include issues of citizenship and national belonging in imperial and postwar Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Entanglement of Sexual and Industrial Labour 2. Sexing
Class: "The Prostitute" in Japanese Proletarian Literature 3. Gender and
Korean Labour in Wartime Japan 4. Military Prostitution and Women's Sexual
Labour in Japan and Korea 5. Slum Romance in Korean Factory Girl Literature
6. Shipyard Women and the Politics of Gender: A Case Study of the KSEC Yard
in South Korea 7. The Frailty of Men: The Redemption of Masculinity in the
Korean Labour Movement 8. Gender and Ethnicity at Work: Korean "Hostess"
Club Rose in Japan