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Book Synopsis Women's Experiences and Feminist Practices in South Korea by : Pil-wha Chang
Download or read book Women's Experiences and Feminist Practices in South Korea written by Pil-wha Chang and published by Ewha Womans University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook on women's studies and feminist research in South Korea. It covers a wide range of issues, including family, work, sexuality and women's movements. The book is designed for an upper-undergraduate and graduate level audience.
Book Synopsis Practicing Feminism in South Korea by : Kyungja Jung
Download or read book Practicing Feminism in South Korea written by Kyungja Jung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean women’s movement, which is seen in both Western and non-Western countries as being exemplary in terms of women’s activism, experienced a dramatic change in its direction and strategy in the early 1990s. At the heart of the new approach was an increasing focus on sexual violence, which has had a huge impact on bringing women’s issues onto the public agenda in Korea. This book examines feminist practice in Korea by analyzing the experiences of the country’s first sexual assault center, the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center. Based on extensive original research, including interviews with activists and extensive participant observation, it explores why feminist activists in South Korea chose to organize around the issue of sexual violence, the strategies it used to do so, what impact the movement has made and what challenges it still faces to achieve its objectives.
Book Synopsis Korean American Women by : Young I. Song
Download or read book Korean American Women written by Young I. Song and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing sociopolitical and cultural behaviors, this collection provides broad insight into the diverse experiences and perspectives of Korean American women in the light of feminism. In their discussions, the authors focus on the status and progress of Korean American women in contemporary society. Twenty-one selections examine the collective experience and Western feminist issues from minority feminist perspectives. The content is interdisciplinary and raises many thought-provoking, seldom-discussed issues. This book will be of interest to students and faculty in sociology, feminist and women's studies, ethnic studies, and Asian studies.
Book Synopsis Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel by : Cho Nam-Joo
Download or read book Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel written by Cho Nam-Joo and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors Choice Selection A global sensation, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 “has become...a touchstone for a conversation around feminism and gender” (Sarah Shin, Guardian). One of the most notable novels of the year, hailed by both critics and K-pop stars alike, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny. In a tidy apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, millennial “everywoman” Kim Jiyoung spends her days caring for her infant daughter. But strange symptoms appear: Jiyoung begins to impersonate the voices of other women, dead and alive. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist. Jiyoung narrates her story to this doctor—from her birth to parents who expected a son to elementary school teachers who policed girls’ outfits to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women’s restrooms. But can her psychiatrist cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? “A social treatise as well as a work of art” (Alexandra Alter, New York Times), Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 heralds the arrival of international powerhouse Cho Nam-Joo.
Download or read book The Comfort Women written by C. Sarah Soh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.
Book Synopsis Deliverance and Submission by : Kelly H. Chong
Download or read book Deliverance and Submission written by Kelly H. Chong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "South Korea is home to one of the most vibrant evangelical Protestant communities in the world. This book investigates the meanings of—and the reasons behind—an intriguing aspect of contemporary South Korean evangelicalism: the intense involvement of middle-class women. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Seoul that explores the relevance of gender and women’s experiences to Korean evangelicalism, Kelly H. Chong not only helps provide a clearer picture of the evangelical movement’s success in South Korea, but interrogates the global question of contemporary women’s attraction to religious traditionalisms. In highlighting the growing disjunction between the forces of social transformation that are rapidly liberalizing modern Korean society, and a social system that continues to uphold key patriarchal structures on both societal and familial levels, Chong relates women’s religious involvement to the contradictions of South Korea’s recent socio-cultural changes and complex engagement with modernity. By focusing on the ways in which women’s religious participation constitutes—both spiritually and institutionally—an important part of their effort to negotiate the problems and dilemmas of contemporary family and gender relations, this book explores the contradictory significance of evangelical beliefs and practices for women, which simultaneously opens up possibilities for gender negotiation/resistance, and for women’s redomestication."
Book Synopsis Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea by : Youna Kim
Download or read book Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea written by Youna Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book 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 modernity, Youna Kim analyzes how Korean women of varying age and class group cope with the new environment of changing economical structure and social relations. The book argues that television is an important resource for women, stimulating them to research their own lives and identities. Youna Kim reveals Korean women as creative, energetic and critical audiences in their responses to evolving modernity and the impact of the West. Based on original empirical research, the book explores the hopes, aspirations, frustrations and dilemmas of Korean women as they try to cope with life beyond traditional grounds. Going beyond the traditional Anglo-American view of media and culture, this text will appeal to students and scholars of both Korean area studies and media and communications studies.
Book Synopsis Breaking the Glass Box by : JungJa (Joy) Yu
Download or read book Breaking the Glass Box written by JungJa (Joy) Yu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Glass Box includes spiritual formation process for liberation from gender oppression through multiple awareness practices of conflicts in han-based Korean culture of society and church. The metaphor has multiple liberation process: "invisible glass box," "visible glass box," "breaking the glass box," and "sticky rice." This liberation process includes consicentization, consciousness-raising, and a heightened cultural awareness in discerning the reasons of interpersonal conflicts in Korean socio-cultural contexts. By exploring the multi-faceted han-jeong dynamics with Feminist theology and Asian Feminism, the important aspects of re-imaging the self and God as spiritual formation have been examined with contemplative practices of Internal Family System (IFS) and self-compassion to create the healthy jeong-filled solidarity group. The "sticky rice" is a new cultural paradigm for Korean women's jeong-filled hospitality. The broken pieces of the glass box will be transformed into the grains of rice by the positive jeong-filled hospitality of cooking sticky rice. In the solidarity group of jeong-filled hospitality, represented by rice ready to cook a serving of delicious sticky rice, people can enjoy the fellowship of healing, forgiving, and reconciling of the sticky rice. These images are intended to promote a healthy community of ministry and spirituality for Korean women.
Download or read book Flowers of Fire written by Hawon Jung and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Invigorating debut . . . [a] full-throated rallying cry." —Publishers Weekly One of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books of 2023" An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—one that the world should be watching. Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street, and many more brave individuals took a stand, to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct—including a popular presidential contender. South Korean feminists know that the revolution has been a long time coming, between battles against its own patriarchal society as well as challenging stereotypes of docile Asian women in the Western imagination. Now, author Hawon Jung will show the rest of the world that these women are no delicate flowers—they are trailblazing flames. Flowers of Fire takes the reader into the trenches of this fight for equality, following along as South Korean activists march on the streets, navigate public and private spaces where spycam porn crimes are rampant, and share tips and tricks with each other as they learn how to protect themselves from harassment and how to push authorities to act. Jung, the former Seoul correspondent for the AFP, draws on her on-the-ground reporting and interviews with many women who became activists and leaders, from the elite prosecutor who ignited the country’s #MeToo movement to the young women who led the war against non-consensual photography. Their stories, though long overlooked in the West, mirror realities that women across the world are all too familiar with: threats of defamation lawsuits to silence victims of assault, tech-based sexual abuse, and criminal justice systems where victims’ voices are often met with suspicion and abusers’ downfalls are met with sympathy. These are the issues at the heart of their #MeToo movement, and South Korean women have fought against them vigorously—and with extraordinary success. In Flowers of Fire, Jung illuminates the strength and tenacity of these women, too often sidelined in global conversations about feminism and gender equality.
Book Synopsis Globally Agreed Upon, Locally Troubled by : Min Sook Heo
Download or read book Globally Agreed Upon, Locally Troubled written by Min Sook Heo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation explores the ways in which the problem of violence against women has been constructed as a public and social problem in South Korea. Violence against women is a common problem that women share around the globe; at the transnational level, the women's human rights framework has been widely accepted and celebrated by human rights activists as the best way to combat violence against women. However, the experience of activists at the local level suggests they confront serious, contextual obstacles to this framework, forcing them to develop a more culturally relevant framing. Dissertation research was based on multiple methods, including document research, in-depth and semi-structured interviews with key actors, participant observation, frame analysis and institutional ethnography. The dissertation analyzes several key issues. First, the reasons behind and ways in which Korean feminist activists constructed a framework emphasizing "preservation of the family" as a tool to elicit public and political support is the major focus of the dissertation. Second, how, why and with whom they formed strategic coalitions is examined extensively. And third, the dissertation analyzes debates and disagreements among local feminists over strategic decisions such as framing of issues, coalition building, divisions among feminists, and the goal of prioritizing laws to eliminate violence against women. Because of the globalization of human rights language to combat violence against women, the dissertation explores the dilemmas that locally situated feminists confronted in their political and social contexts. Findings include the following. Although women's human rights and legislative change were agreed upon as the best approaches to socially construct the notion of gender violence and to challenge patriarchal discourse and practices about domestic violence, locally situated women activists may feel forced to rely on a more culturally resonant framing to gain attention and support. This can happen even when they prefer a human rights framework. Therefore, the dissertation suggests that feminist debates surrounding the usefulness of human rights language or that equate such language with imperialist Western feminist practices need to be productively reconstructed. One useful way to achieve this is to focus on the situational reality of cultural entrapment that local feminist anti-violence activists may confront in different cultural contexts.
Book Synopsis Women's Studies, Women's Lives by : Committee on Women's Studies in Asia
Download or read book Women's Studies, Women's Lives written by Committee on Women's Studies in Asia and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed essays on the impact of women's studies on their lives by various women's studies scholars from Asia.
Book Synopsis Writing Women in Korea by : Theresa Hyun
Download or read book Writing Women in Korea written by Theresa Hyun and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Women in Korea explores the connections among translation, new forms of writing, and new representations of women in Korea from the early 1900s to the late 1930s. It examines shifts in the way translators handled material pertaining to women, the work of women translators of the time, and the relationship between translation and the original works of early twentieth-century Korean women writers. The book opens with an outline of the Chosôn period (1392-1910), when a vernacular writing system was invented, making it possible to translate texts into Korean--in particular, Chinese writings reinforcing official ideals of feminine behavior aimed at women. The legends of European heroines and foreign literary works (such as those by Ibsen) translated at the beginning of the twentieth century helped spur the creation of the New Woman (Sin Yôsông) ideal for educated women of the 1920s and 1930s. The role of women translators is explored, as well as the scope of their work and the constraints they faced as translators. Finally, the author relates the writing of Kim Myông-Sun, Pak Hwa-Sông, and Mo Yun-Suk to new trends imported into Korea through translation. She argues that these women deserve recognition for not only their creation of new forms of writing, but also their contributions to Korea’s emerging sense of herself as a modern and independent nation.
Book Synopsis Women Of Japan & Korea by : Joyce Gelb
Download or read book Women Of Japan & Korea written by Joyce Gelb and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original research on the changing roles of women in Japan and Korea.
Book Synopsis Bridge-makers and Cross-bearers by : Jung Ha Kim
Download or read book Bridge-makers and Cross-bearers written by Jung Ha Kim and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers what it is to be a women in the context of the Korean-American church. Drawing on participant observation, interviews, and a review of historical documents, Jun Ha Kim focuses on four major issues: the role of religious institutions within ethnic communities, the role of Christian churches as patriarchal institutions, issues of status inconsistency and role conflict in marginalized communities, and the relative importance of gender and race-ethnicity in shaping the identities of women of color.
Book Synopsis New Women in Colonial Korea by : Hyaeweol Choi
Download or read book New Women in Colonial Korea written by Hyaeweol Choi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your electronic CIP application and accompanying text for Title: New Women in Colonial Korea ISBN: 9780415517096 was successfully transmitted to the Library of Congress.
Book Synopsis Korean Women, Self-Esteem, and Practical Theology by : Jaeyeon Lucy Chung
Download or read book Korean Women, Self-Esteem, and Practical Theology written by Jaeyeon Lucy Chung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical-constructive study of Korean women’s self-esteem from a feminist practical theological perspective. Jaeyeon Lucy Chung recognizes two different and yet related problems: the absence of scholarly work on women’s self-esteem from non-white, non-Western groups in the field of practical theology, and the lack of attention to the low self-esteem prevalent in Korean women’s sociocultural and religious context. Chung employs in-depth interview studies while drawing on theoretical resources of psychology, theology, and cultural studies to develop a relational-communal theory of self-esteem, and a systematic, communal understanding of pastoral care practice. The project offers insights into the life experience of Korean women, especially self-esteem, and it reveals some of the ways self-esteem can be fostered.
Book Synopsis The Making of the Modern Female Gender by : Eun-Shil Kim
Download or read book The Making of the Modern Female Gender written by Eun-Shil Kim and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is about how the modernization discourse created the new experience of female gender in Korean society. Particularly I focus on the medico-political control of women's bodies through medicine as one of the most critical effects of a modernization project. For this inquiry, I study the lives of two groups of women in a city in Seoul's metropolitan area, middle-class women and working-class women. Chapter 2 deals with middle-class women's experience of "the modern" through the new space of "apartment culture" in which housewives were engineering and creating the life style of the urban middle-class.
