Women, television and everyday life
Subtitle: journeys of hope
By: Youna Kim.
Series: RoutledgeCurzon advances in Korean studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Television and women -- Korea; Women -- Korea -- Identity; Women -- Korea -- Social conditions; Women on television
Description: Korea is currently witnessing huge social change with unprecedented divorce rates and the disintegration of the traditional family system. Fusing audience research and ethnography, Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea presents a compelling account of women's changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life-television. Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernization Kim analyses how Korean women of varying age and class groups cope with the new environment of changing economical structures and social relations. The central arguments presented revolve around the revelatory and self-reflexive nature of TV talk and its function as a form of empowerment. The book argues that television is an important resource for women, stimulating them to research their own lives and identities. Kim reveals Korean women as creative, energetic, and critical audiences in their responses to evolving modernity and the impact of the West. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.