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Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism

Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism

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AnthropologyAsian American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415915058
ISBN13: 9780415915052
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 5 1997
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
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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