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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Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Nationalism and Construction of Gender in Korea
3. Begetting the Nation: The Androcentric Discourse of National History and Tradition in South Korea
4. Men's Talk: A Korean American View of South Korean Constructions of Women, Gender, and Masculinity
5. Kindred Distance
6. Re-membering the Korean Military Comfort Women: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Silencing
7. Prostitute Bodies and Gendered States in U.S.-Korea Relations
8. Yanggongju as an Allegory of the Nation: Images of Working-Class Women in Popular and Radical Texts
9. Working Women and the Ontology of the Collective Subject: (Post)Coloniality and the Representation of Female Subjectivities in Hyŏn Ki-yŏng's Paramt'anŭn sŏm
10. Mother Load
11. Ideals of Liberation: Korean Women in Manchuria
12. Re-membering Home
13. A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema
14. Contributors’ Notes

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