Gender and class in contemporary South Korea
Subtitle: intersectionality and transnationality
By: edited by Hae Yeon Choo, John Lie, and Laura C.Nelson
Series: Transnational Korea -- 4
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781557291820
Subjects: Sex; Social classes; Intersectionality (Sociology)
Description: "The contributors to this volume offer an explicitly intersectional and transnational perspective on contemporary South Korean gender and class relations and structures"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: gender, class, and contemporary South Korea / Hae Yeon Choo, John Lie, Laura C.Nelson; title: Changelings and cinderellas : class in/equality, gendered social im/mobility, and post-developmentalism in contemporary South Korean; title: Television dramas / Jin-kyung Lee; title: Shrewd entrepreneurs or immoral speculators? : desires, speculation, and middle-class housewives in South Korea, 1978-1996 / Myungji Yang; title: "My skill" : attachments and narratives of garment workers in South Korea / Seo Young Park; title: Leave no birthing trace : the politics of health and beauty in the South Korean postpartum care market / Yoonjung Kang; title: Gendered narratives of transition to adulthood among Korean work-bound youth / Hyejeong Jo; title: Diverging masculinities and the politics of aversion toward ethnically mixed men in the Korean military / Hyun Mee Kim; title: Maternal guardians : intimate labor and the pursuit of gendered citizenship among South Korean volunteers helping migrant women / Hae Yeon Choo.