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 | | Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism by Elaine H. Kim ISBN-10: 9780415915052 ISBN-10: 0-415-91505-8 ISBN-13: 9780415915052 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91505-2 Hardcover 1997-11-05 Routledge Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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 interventionthat might recuperate womanhood. | ||
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Excellent Anaylsis Professor Kim is simply amazing in this book and you can see why she is regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies. Particularly helpful is the voice that Prof. Kim gives to the disenfranchised in historical books. They say historical books are written by conquerors. Nationalist movements that succeed generally give credit to the one who takes the credit as the conqueror, but we have to remember that there are many people before him (or her) who remain silent because they were in the stage of struggle and suffering, rather than victory. There should be more historical studies like this. | ||