Creating subaltern counterpublics : Korean women in Japan and their struggle for night school

Author(s)

• 徐, 阿貴 ソ, アキ
• Kamada, Yuri

Bibliographic Information

Creating subaltern counterpublics : Korean women in Japan and their struggle for night school

by Akwi Seo

（Japanese society series）

Kyoto University Press , Trans Pacific Press, 2017

• : [hardcover]
• : Trans Pacific Press : hardcover

Other Title

Zainichi Chōsenjin josei ni yoru 'kai no taikō-teki na kōkyōken' no keisei : Ōsaka no yakan chūgaku o kaku to shita undō

Note

Translation of: 在日朝鮮人女性による「下位の対抗的な公共圏」の形成 : 大阪夜間中学校を校とした運動

"Translated by Yuri Kamada"--Cover

"First pubilished in Japanese by Ochanomizu shobō in 2012"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a study of a political and social movement instigated by older Korean women in Japan, beginning in the 1990s. Koreans in Japan have occupied an unique position among ethnic minority groups. Until recently they constituted the largest group of "foreign nationals". yet they have been marginalized politically, socially, economically, and culturally. Korean women are doubly-disadvantaged, treated as inferior to men by both Korean and Japanese society. Furthermore, the first generation of Korean women migrants were not educated as children, rendering them functionally illiterate and, thus, triply marginalized. Late in life, when family and work responsibilities became less onerous, local authorities created educational opportunities, which the women took up in unexpected numbers, overloading the facilities. The authorities' responses effectively re-marginalized them. The elderly Korean women took a stance and, in the process, reconstituted themselves as social and political actors. This book examines that self-transformation process.

Table of Contents

Figures Tables Photos Acknowledgements 1 Introduction:C onceptualizing Korean women in Japan through a feminist lens 2 Between ethnic rights and women's rights movements 3 Counterpublics and the Taiheiji Independence Movement 4 Life course: Illiteracy and Night Junior High School 5 Formation of oppositional subjects 6 Intergenerational solidarity and the reconstruction of ethnicity 7 Korean women in Japan and subaltern counterpublics Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

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Details

• NCID: BB23825416
• ISBN:
  • 9784814000890
  • 9781925608915
• Country Code: ja
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: Kyoto,Melbourne
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 258 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 376.3
  • NDC9 : 376.3
  • NDLC : EC76
  • NDLC : A68-Z
• Subject Headings:
  • BSH : 夜間中学
  • BSH : 朝鮮人(日本在留)
  • BSH : 女性問題
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA49326287