Under Construction : : The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea /

Under Construction : : The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea / / ed. by Laurel Kendall.

Since the late 1960s, the lives of south Koreans have been reconstructed on the shifting ground of urbanization, industrialization, military authoritarianism, democratic reform, and social liberalization. Class and gender identities have been modified in relation to a changing modernity and new defi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Abelmann, Nancy,
Haejoang, Cho,
Janelli, Roger L.,
Kendall, Laurel,
Lee, June J. H.,
Lee, So-Hee,
Moon, Seungsook,
Yim, Dawnhee,
HerausgeberIn:
Kendall, Laurel,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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