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Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea

Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea

Moon, Seungsook

Paperback

Series: Politics, History, and Culture

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyKorean History

ISBN10: 0822336162
ISBN13: 9780822336167
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 30 2005
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the pursuit of modernity in South Korea involved the construction of the anticommunist national identity and a massive effort to mold the populace into useful, docile members of the state. This process, which she terms militarized modernity, treated men and women differently. Men were mobilized for mandatory military service and then, as conscripts, utilized as workers and researchers in the industrializing economy. Women were consigned to lesser factory jobs, and their roles as members of the modern nation were defined largely in terms of biological reproduction and household management.

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