The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk, and Class in Contemporary South Korea 9780824864859

How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the li

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English Pages 344 Year 2003

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
1. INTRODUCTION: The Melodrama of Mobility
2. THE EIGHT WOMEN
3. KEY WORDS
4. CLASS WORK: Education Stories
5. SOCIAL MOBILITY: “Facts” and “Fictions”
6. PERSONALITY SPEAKING
7. GENDERING DISPLACEMENT. Men, Masculinity, and the Nation
8. ALL IN THE FAMILY: Class Distances and Divides
9. WHEN IT’S ALL SAID AND DONE
10. CONCLUSION: Living Through Compressed Modernity
CODA
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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