TY - BOOK ID - 149871378 TI - Measured Excess : Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea PY - 2000 SN - 0231529139 9780231529136 PB - New York : Columbia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Consumption (Economics) -- Korea (South). KW - Korea (South) -- Economic policy. KW - Women consumers -- Korea (South). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149871378 AB - This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation. Past scholarship on the culture of nationalism has largely focused on the ways in which institutions utilize memory and ""history"" to construct national identity. In a provocative departure, Laura C. Nelson challenges these assumptions with regard to South Korea, arguing that its identity has been as much tied to notion ER -