Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea 9780824865382
Since the late 1960s, the lives of south Koreans have been reconstructed on the shifting ground of urbanization, industr
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Women, Mobility, and Desire: Narrating Class and Gender in South Korea
3. Discourses of Illness, Meanings of Modernity: A Gendered Construction of Sŏnginbyŏng
4. The Production and Subversion of Hegemonic Masculinity: Reconfiguring Gender Hierarchy in Contemporary South Korea
5. Gender Construction in the Offices of a South Korean Conglomerate
6. The Concept of Female Sexuality in Korean Popular Culture
7. Living With Conflicting Subjectivities: Mother, Motherly Wife, and Sexy Woman in the Transition From Colonial-Modern to Postmodern Korea
Contributors
Index
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Women, Mobility, and Desire: Narrating Class and Gender in South Korea
3. Discourses of Illness, Meanings of Modernity: A Gendered Construction of Sŏnginbyŏng
4. The Production and Subversion of Hegemonic Masculinity: Reconfiguring Gender Hierarchy in Contemporary South Korea
5. Gender Construction in the Offices of a South Korean Conglomerate
6. The Concept of Female Sexuality in Korean Popular Culture
7. Living With Conflicting Subjectivities: Mother, Motherly Wife, and Sexy Woman in the Transition From Colonial-Modern to Postmodern Korea
Contributors
Index
- Author / Uploaded
- Laurel Kendall (editor)
