| Description |
viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Elaine H. Kim and Chungmoo Choi -- 2. Nationalism and Construction of Gender in Korea / Chungmoo Choi -- 3. Begetting the Nation: The Androcentric Discourse of National History and Tradition in South Korea / Seungsook Moon -- 4. Men's Talk: A Korean American View of South Korean Constructions of Women, Gender, and Masculinity / Elaine H. Kim -- 5. Kindred Distance / Yong Soon Min -- 6. Re-membering the Korean Military Comfort Women: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Silencing / Hyunah Yang -- 7. Prostitute Bodies and Gendered States in U.S.-Korea Relations / Katharine H. S. Moon -- 8. Yanggongju as an Allegory of the Nation: Images of Working-Class Women in Popular and Radical Texts / Hyun Sook Kim -- 9. Working Women and the Ontology of the Collective Subject: (Post)Coloniality and the Representation of Female Subjectivities in Hyon Ki-yong's Paramt'anun som (Island in the Wind) / You-me Park -- 10. Mother Load / Yong Soon Min |
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11. Ideals of Liberation: Korean Women in Manchuria / Hyun Ok Park -- 12. Re-membering Home / Hyun Yi Kang -- 13. A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema / Helen Lee -- 14. Contributors' Notes |
| Summary |
Dangerous Women enriches and diversifies the critique of colonial discourse by discussing and analyzing post-colonial challenges Korean and diasporic Korean women have faced and continue to face within the context of multiple gendered colonialisms and their legacies in Korea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Korean American women -- Social conditions.
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Sex role -- Korea -- History.
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Women -- Korea (South) -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Korea -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Korea -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073011
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| Author |
Choi, Chungmoo.
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Kim, Elaine H.
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| LC no. |
96049259 |
| ISBN |
0415915058 (hb : alk. paper) |
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0415915066 (pb : alk. paper) |
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