The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945 (Volume 3) (Asia Pacific Modern) - Hardcover

Yoo, Theodore Jun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520252888 ISBN 13: 9780520252882

Publisher: University of California Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 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.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Thorough and thoughtful.Yoo's densely researched history, filled with compelling stories, makes an important intervention in the field of gender and colonialism."―Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois

About the Author:

Theodore Jun Yoo is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawaii.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520252888
• ISBN 13: 9780520252882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328