The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910-1945 (Asia Pacific Modern)
by Yoo Theodore Jun
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This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. Theodore Jun Yoo shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy new positions outside the home, they encountered the pervasive control of the colonial state, which sought to impose modernity on them. While some Korean women conformed to the dictates of colonial hegemony, others took deliberate pains to distinguish show more between what was "modern" (e.g., Western outfits) and thus legitimate, and what was "Japanese," and thus illegitimate. Yoo argues that what made the experience of these women unique was the dual confrontation with modernity itself and with Japan as a colonial power. show lessTags
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- Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 305.48 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Groups of people Women Specific groups of women
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- HQ1765.5 .Y644 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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