| Description |
viii, 206 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Laurel Kendall -- 2. Women, Mobility, and Desire: Narrating Class and Gender in South Korea / Nancy Abelmann -- 3. Discourses of Illness, Meanings of Modernity: A Gendered Construction of Songinbyong / June J. H. Lee -- 4. The Production and Subversion of Hegemonic Masculinity: Reconfiguring Gender Hierarchy in Contemporary South Korea / Seungsook Moon -- 5. Gender Construction in the Offices of a South Korean Conglomerate / Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim -- 6. The Concept of Female Sexuality in Korean Popular Culture / So-Hee Lee -- 7. Living With Conflicting Subjectivities: Mother, Motherly Wife, and Sexy Woman in the Transition From Colonial-Modern to Postmodern Korea / Cho Haejoang |
| Notes |
A collection of 7 papers, 5 originally presented at a workshop on "Gender and Social Change in Late Twentieth-Century Korea," held at Columbia University in the spring of 1995 under the sponsorhip of the Center for Korean Research, and revised for this volume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Femininity -- Korea (South)
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Masculinity -- Korea (South)
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Sex role -- Korea (South)
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Social classes -- Korea (South)
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Women -- Korea (South) -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Kendall, Laurel.
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| LC no. |
2001028121 |
| ISBN |
0824824075 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0824824881 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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