Dangerous Women Gender and Korean Nationalism

Name: Dangerous Women Gender and Korean Nationalism
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ISBN: 9780415915069

ISBN-10: 0415915066

ISBN-13: 9780415915069

Edition: 1998

Authors: Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi

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Dangerous Womenaddresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Koreannation. 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…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/5/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.90" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




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