Getting Married in Korea Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity

Name: Getting Married in Korea Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity
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ISBN: 9780520202009

ISBN-10: 0520202007

ISBN-13: 9780520202009

Edition: 1996

Authors: Laurel Kendall

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This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues--identity, romantic love, women's work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremonies--Laurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century. Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing both working-class and middle-class couples,…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/31/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 269
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



Why Study Weddings? A Confessional Introduction



A Wedding in Righteous Town



A Rite of Modernization and Its Postmodern Discontents



Transformations: The Construction of Courtship in Twentieth-Century Korea



Requesting Marriage



Ceremonious Goods



Betrothal Gifts and "Bothersome Custom"


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index