DANGEROUS WOMEN by Elaine H. Kim (Editor), etc. (Editor), Hyun Sook Kim (Editor) ( 9780415915069 )

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Title:

DANGEROUS WOMEN
GENDER AND KOREAN NATIONALISM

By:

Elaine H. Kim (Editor), etc. (Editor), Hyun Sook Kim (Editor)

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0415915066

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9780415915069

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

18 December, 1997

Pages:

250

Description:

Addressing the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as issues related to colonialisation and decolonialisation of Korea, leading scholars discuss how Korea can still be seen as an 'imaginary' and 'gendered' nation.

Synopsis:

Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated and infantilized "homeland;" they are also shown to be 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 Women rectifies that construction, offering a feminist intervention that might recuperate womanhood.

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