Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean NationalismElaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi 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. |
Contents
The Androcentric Discourse | 33 |
A Korean American View of South Korean | 67 |
Kindred Distance | 119 |
Prostitute Bodies and Gendered States in | 141 |
Images of | 175 |
Working Women and the Ontology of the Collective | 203 |
Mother Load | 223 |
Remembering Home | 249 |
A Personal Genealogy of | 291 |
Contributors Notes | 323 |
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