Youna Kim

Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea (eBook, ePUB)

Journeys of Hope

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book presents a compelling account of women's changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134224661
• Artikelnr.: 38453555

Autorenporträt

Youna Kim is Lecturer in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: General Issues 1. Women, Television and Everyday Life 1.1 Western
Literature 1.2 Korean Literature 2. The Socio-Economic Position of Women in
Korea 2.1 Confucianism 2.2 Education 2.3 Work 2.4 Marriage and Family
2.5 Sexuality 3. The Body, TV Talk and Emotion 3.1 A Normative Ideal of the
Body: Who Could be There? 3.2 TV Talk as a Method 3.3 Emotion as an Effect
Part 2: Working Class Women 4. Living in the Traditional Way 4.1 Misery of
Everyday Life: TV, Gender and Emotion 4.2 Power of Everyday Life: Son as a
Tactic 4.3 Reading Against Primetime Feminism 4.4 TV Realism and
Identification 4.5 Reinvigorating Tradition 5. Coping and Adapting: Family
Life in Transition 5.1 TV Rituals, Security and Intimacy 5.2 TV and
Childcare: "I Try Not to Watch TV Because of the Child" 5.3 Fantasy of
Dominance 5.4 A-ha! Emotion: Reading the Popular 6. Yearning for Change:
The Younger Generation 6.1 Work, Marriage and Feminism 6.2 Representation
of Women on Korean Television: "It's Always Killing Smart Women" 6.3 Play
in the Global Telecity: "TV is My Best Friend" 6.4 Representation of the
West in the Korean Imagination 6.5 Yearning for Free Choice, Social
Mobility and Change 6.6 Rejecting Western Sexuality Part 3: The Middle
Class 7. Older Women in Control: Power and Domesticity 7.1 TV, Emotion and
Shifting Power: "Now it's Women's Times!" 7.2 Middle-Class Leisure and
Television 7.3 TV Reflexivity: Women's Work and Childcare 7.4 Family, TV
and Moral Discourse 8. Professional Young Mothers: The Care of the Self 8.1
Unavailability of Husband, TV and Childcare 8.2 Child Education and
Professionalization of Motherhood 8.3 Escape into Romance: "I Will Be
Always There For You" 9. Becoming an Individual: Life-Style and Life
Choices 9.1 Employment and Uncertainty: Whose Individualization? 9.2 A
Return to Pleasure: Entertainment and Hope 9.3 Talking Back to The West:
But Who Will Listen? Part 4: Journeys of Hope 10. Conclusion 10.1
Reflexivity at Work 10.2 Class, Generation and Reflexivity 10.3
Tradition/Morality/Family/Nation (Women in their 50s) 10.4
Transition/Negotiation/Intimacy/Emotion (Women in their 30s) 10.5
Openness/Play/Imagination/Freedom (Women in their 20s) 10.6 The
Tradition-/The Inner-/The Other-Directed Culture of Everyday Life.
Appendix: List of Interviewees