Under construction : the gendering of modernity, class, and consumption in the Republic of Korea
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Under construction : the gendering of modernity, class, and consumption in the Republic of Korea
University of Hawai`i Press, c2002
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A collection of 7 papers, 5 originally presented at a workshop on "Gender and Social Change in Late Twentieth-Century Korea," held at Columbia University in the spring of 1995 under the sponsorhip of the Center for Korean Research, and revised for this volume
Includes bibliographies and index
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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 definitions of home and family, work and leisure, husband and wife. ""Under Construction"" provides a portrait of south Koreans in the 1990s - a decade that saw a return to civilian rule, a loosening of censorship and social control, and the emergence of a full-blown consumer culture. It shows how these changes impacted the lives of Korean men and women and the very definition of what it means to be ""male"" and ""female"" in Korea. In a series of provocative essays written by Korean and Western scholars, we see how Korean women and men actively engage, and at times openly contest, the limitations of gender. ""Under Construction"" is part of a turn in the anthropology of gender - from its early quest for the causes of female subordination to a finely tuned analysis of the historical, cultural, and class-based specificities of gender relations and the tension between gender as an ideological construct and as a lived experience. Grounded in the political and economic history of south Korea, this volume fills a gap in Korean studies and East Asia gender studies in English.
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