Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism

Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
ISBN-10
1136048065
ISBN-13
9781136048067
Series
Dangerous Women
Category
Social Science
Pages
338
Language
English
Published
2012-11-12
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi

Description

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. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated and infantilized "homeland;" they are also shown to be 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 intervention that might recuperate womanhood.

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