Nationalism and construction of gender in Korea / Chungmoo Choi -- Begetting the nation: the androcentric discourse of national history and tradition in South Korea / Seungsook Moon ₆ Men's talk: a Korean American view of South Korean constructions of women, gender, and masculinity / Elaine H. Kim -- Kindred distance: photo essay / Yong Soon Min -- Re-membering the Korean military comfort women: nationalism, sexuality, and silencing / Hyunah Yang -- Prostitute bodies and gendered states in U.S.-Korean relations / Katharine H.S. Moon -- Yanggongju as an allegory of the nation: images of working-class women in popular and radical texts / Hyun Sook Kim -- Working women and the ontology of the collective subject: (post) coloniality and the representation of female subjectivities in Hyŏn Ki-yóng's Paramt'anún sóm (Island in the wind) / You-me Park -- Mother load: photo essay / Yong Soon Min -- Ideals of liberation: Korean women in Manchuria / Hyun Ok Park -- Re-membering home / Hyun Yi Kang -- A peculiar sensation: a personal genealogy of Korean American women's cinema / Helen Lee
Summary
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
