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.
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Elaine Kim is Professor of Asian American Studies and Chair of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Chungmoo Choi is Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
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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.
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Driving on the Pacific Highway one glorious afternoon, I spotted, in the rear view mirror, a military vehicle being driven by a young soldier in a khaki uniform. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
camptown prostitutes, camptown problems, military sex workers, national ethics education, military comfort women, camptown residents, militarized prostitution, postcolonial migrancy, military prostitution, sexual labor, official nationalism, family law reform, colonized women, peasant mothers, radical texts, military crimes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Korean, Korean American, New York, United States, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Asian American, Park Chung Hee, Great Girl, Manchuria Committee, Silver Stallion, Under Flag, Institute of Korean Mental Culture Research, Korean Council, Sunder Rajan, Cold War, Los Angeles, Women's Committee, Sally's Beauty Spot, Ahn Jung-hyo, Chinese Communist Party, Kim Su Theiler, Myung Mi Kim, President Park, Third World Newsreel, Association of National Ethics Studies New!
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Driving on the Pacific Highway one glorious afternoon, I spotted, in the rear view mirror, a military vehicle being driven by a young soldier in a khaki uniform. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
camptown prostitutes, camptown problems, military sex workers, national ethics education, military comfort women, camptown residents, militarized prostitution, postcolonial migrancy, military prostitution, sexual labor, official nationalism, family law reform, colonized women, peasant mothers, radical texts, military crimes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Korean, Korean American, New York, United States, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Asian American, Park Chung Hee, Great Girl, Manchuria Committee, Silver Stallion, Under Flag, Institute of Korean Mental Culture Research, Korean Council, Sunder Rajan, Cold War, Los Angeles, Women's Committee, Sally's Beauty Spot, Ahn Jung-hyo, Chinese Communist Party, Kim Su Theiler, Myung Mi Kim, President Park, Third World Newsreel, Association of National Ethics Studies New!
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- Under Flag by Myung Mi Kim on 6 pages
- Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea by Junghyo Ahn on 5 pages
- Korea - A Religious History by James H. Grayson on 4 pages
- Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History by Kumkum Sangari on 4 pages
- Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan on page 198, page 219, and page 220
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- The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) by Kyung Hyun Kim on 5 pages
- Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s) by T T. Fujitani on 5 pages
- Korean Women And God: Experiencing God in a Multi-religious Colonial Context (Women from the Margins) by Hee an Choi on 5 pages
- Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism by Elaine H. Kim in Front Matter, page 173, and page 174
- Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History (Restoring Women to History) by Barbara N. Ramusack in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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