Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: ASAA Women in Asia Series
New Femininities and Consumption
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: ASAA Women in Asia Series
ISBN: 978-0-415-66559-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book provides a number of different ways of thinking about gender, media and culture by making a connection between the global and the local in order to show how the complexity of young women’s identities in the era of global media culture are constructed and contested within very specific times and spaces in South Korea. Data collected from interviews with groups of women, along with magazine and newspaper articles, reveal a number of key issues, including the visible transformation of experiences of plastic surgery and the development of a novel concept, the Missy, as a form of new femininities. The book presents a fresh perspective on theorising women’s identities, and is a useful contribution to media and culture studies, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies.
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1. Introduction 2. New Femininities in the postcolonial context 3. Positioning Project: Recovering women’s voice in East Asia 4. Nether Western Nor Korean: Consuming Plastic Surgery in South Korea 5. Translation of Romantic Love and Marriage 6. Is the "Missy" New Femininity? 7. Conclusion: Women’s Voices and Transformative Identities