Moon / Adams / Steinmetz Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8731-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

A postcolonial feminist study of the formation of contemporary political subjectivities in South Korea, framed by the rise and decline in 20th century militarization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moon, Seungsook

Adams, Julia

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

A Note on Korean Language Conventions xi

Introduction: The Gender Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in South Korea 1

PART I. MILITARIZED MODERNITY AND GENDERED MASS MOBILIZATION, 1963–1987

1. The Historical Roots and the Rise of Militarized Modernity 17

2. Mobilized to Be Martial and Productive: Men’s Subjection to the Nation and the Masculine Subjectivity of Family Provider 44

3. Marginalized in Production and Mobilized to Be Domestic: Women’s Incorporation into the Nation 68

PART II. THE DECLINE OF MILITARIZED MODERNITY AND THE TRAJECTORIES OF GENDERED CITIZENSHIP, 1988–2002

4. The Decline of Militarized Modernity and the Rise of the Discourse of Democratization 97

5. The Trajectory of Men’s Citizenship as Shaped by Military and Economic Mobilization 123

6. The Trajectory of Women’s Citizenship as Shaped by Their Economic Marginalization as Reproducers 147

Conclusion: Modernity, Gender, and Citizenship 173

Chronology of Political Events 183

Notes 185

References 213

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Seungsook Moon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Vassar College.