Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism

Book Overview

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. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated and infantilized "homeland;" they are also shown to be 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 intervention that might recuperate womanhood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415915066
• ISBN13: 9780415915069
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

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.