The Making of Modern Subjects : : Public Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century.

• Superior document: Gender, Diversity, and Culture in History and Politics Series
• Author: Gang, Sung Un.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Gender, Diversity, and Culture in History and Politics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Note on Romanization and Translation
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Question of Colonial Publicness and Theaters
• Intersectional Spectatorship of Colonial Korean Women
• Dissecting the Silence of Korean Female Audiences
• Historical Discourse Analysis: Sources and Methods
• Overview of Chapters
• 1. Conditions of Korean Women's Playgoing
• 1.1 Women's Spectatorship during the Choson Dynasty
• Confucian Visual Culture
• Choson Women's Spectating of Processions
• 1.2 Women's Playgoing during the Korean Empire
• Seoul's Playhouses
• Material Conditions of Theatergoing in the 1900s
• The Gendered Interpellation of the Audience
• 2. Korean Women and Charity Concerts
• 2.1 Building a Nation through Donation
• Independence Gate
• National Debt Repayment Movement
• 2.2 Audiences and Playhouses: Destabilizers of the Nation
• Apathetic Audiences: The Privileged
• Endangered Hope: Male Students
• "Lewd Women and Prodigal Men"
• 2.3 Embodying the Philanthropy: Politics of Charity Concerts
• Seoul's Charity Concerts between 1906 and 1910
• Diverse Interests behind Charity Concerts
• Kisaeng Women's Interest in Charity Projects
• Kibu Men's Interest in Charity Concerts
• The Residency‐General's Interest in Charity Projects
• Sermons and Stones Targeting Audiences
• The Question of Women's Agency at Charity Concerts
• 3. Social Education in Korean Theaters
• 3.1 Theater's Role in Colonial Social Education
• "Social Education (shakai kyōiku)" in the Japanese Debate
• Theater and Social Education (1): Education Using New Media
• Theater and Social Education (2): Compensating for Koreans' "Uncouth Nature"
• 3.2 How to Watch Shinp'a: Expectations of Cultural Assimilation
• Maeil Shinbo's Promotion of Korean Shinp'a
• The Cuckoo: Enforcing the Cultural Technique of Beholding.
• The Tears: Disciplining Female Audiences
• 3.3 How to Behave in Theaters: Discipline and Negotiation
• Foucauldian Concepts of Discipline and Subjectification
• The Penetrating Gaze: Maeil Shinbo's Role in Disciplining Process
• Negotiating Social Norms (1): Gendered Segregation
• Negotiating Social Norms (2): Social Strata and Classes
• 4. Female Students and Romantic Movies
• 4.1 Western Romantic Movies and Korean Female Students
• Korean Cinema Culture in the 1920s
• Kissing Scenes in Romantic Movies
• Female Students: Controversies and Agency
• 4.2 Redefining Marriage and Intimacy
• Influences of Eugenics and Social Darwinism
• Influence of Ellen Key
• The Boom of Love (yŏnae)
• Discussing "Eugenic Marriage" in the Late 1920s
• 4.3 Women's Moviegoing in the Context of Eugenic Marriage
• Politics of Gender in the Eugenic Discourse
• Maternal Health and Moviegoing
• Stories Untold
• 5. A Doll's House and Interventions into Women's Spectatorship
• 5.1 A Doll's House in Colonial Korea
• A Brief Trajectory of A Doll's House
• Recasting Gender: A Doll's House and the Japanese New Theater
• The Korean Reception of A Doll's House
• 5.2 Affirmative Commentaries: A Doll's House as a Pedagogical Play
• Individualism for National Independence
• Nora as a Figure of Anti‐Colonial Individualism
• 5.3 Rejective Commentaries: Nora of Chosŏn and the Question of True Awakening
• "To Nora": Annulling Emancipatory Messages
• Awakening of Love: The Feared Power of the Theater Performance
• The Wife of the Incompetent Man: The Fall of Korean Nora
• 5.4 Affirmative‐Critical Commentaries of Korean Socialists
• Socialist Views on the Inequality of Korean Women
• Nora's Awakening as a Socialist (1): Why She Left the Doll's House
• Nora's Awakening as a Socialist (2): Vega
• 5.5 Feminist Commentaries.
• A Gendered Silence Surrounding A Doll's House
• Reenacting Nora's Declaration: Na Hyesok's Emancipatory Commentaries
• Nora and Ibsen as Role Models for Feminist Activism
• Female Audiences' Applause
• 6. Conclusion
• Rediscovering Korean Women as Spectators of Colonial Korea
• Creating Ruptures in the Gendered Subjectification Process: Korean Female Spectators' Audience Publicness
• Contribution of This Study
• 7. Selected Bibliography
• Primary Sources
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Primary Sources: Online Database
• Primary Sources: Anthologies, Books, Texts, and Films
• Secondary Sources
• 8. Glossary (in Korean alphabetical order)
• List of Tables
• List of Figures.