Dangerous Women - Gender and Korean Nationalism (Hardcover)

"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," Leading scholars discuss how Korea, as a result of years of foreign domination, can still be seen as an "imaginary" and "gendered" nation--as a metaphor, even, for Korean women both there and abroad. Together, these essays explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation.
Yet Korean women are not configured here merely as metaphors for an emasculated and enfantilized "homeland." They are also shown to be by-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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	1998
Editors:	Elaine H. Kim • Chungmoo Choi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	332
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-91505-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-415-91505-8
Barcode:	9780415915052

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