Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism

by Kim,Elaine H.; Kim,Elaine H.

• ISBN13: 9780415915069
• ISBN10: 0415915066
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-11-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Dangerous Womenaddresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Koreannation. Leading scholars discuss how Korea, as a result of years of foreign domination, can still be seen as an "imaginary" and "gendered" nation--as a metaphor, even, for Korean women both there and abroad. Together, these essays explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. Yet Korean women are not configured here merely as metaphors for an emasculated and enfantilized "homeland." They are also shown to be by-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 Womenrectifies that construction, offering a feminist interventionthat might recuperate womanhood.

Table of Contents

Chungmoo

Introduction

Chungmoo Choi

Nationalism and Construction of Gender in Korea

Seungsook Moon

Begetting the Nation: The Androcentric Discourse of National History and Tradition in South Korea

Elaine H. Kim

Men's Talk: A Korean American View of South Korean Constructions of Women, Gender, and Masculinity

Yong Soon Min

Kindred Distance (Photo Essay)

Hyunah Yang

Re-membering the Korean Military Comfort Women: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Silencing

Katharine H.S. Moon

Prostitute Bodies and Gendered States in U.S.-Korea Relations

Hyun Sook Kim

Yanggongjucas an Allegory of the Nation: Images of Working-Class Women in Popular and Radical Texts

(Island in the Wind) You-me Park

Working Women and the Ontology of the Collective Subject: (Post)Coloniality and the Representation of Female Subjectivities in

Paramtanun Som

Yong Soon Min

Mother Load (Photo Essay)

Hyun Ok Park

Ideals of Liberation: Korean Women in Manchuria

Hyun Yi Kang

Re-membering Home

Helen Lee

A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema Lee

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