TY - BOOK ID - 77870234 TI - The politics of gender in colonial Korea PY - 2008 SN - 1282359339 9786612359330 0520934156 9780520934153 0520252888 9780520252882 9781282359338 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Sex role KW - Women KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Korea KW - Japan KW - Women - Korea - Social conditions - 20th century KW - Sex role - Korea - History - 20th century KW - Korea - History - Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles KW - colonial hegemony. KW - colonial power. KW - comfort women. KW - family. KW - feminists in asia. KW - gender women studies. KW - generational. KW - japan korean relations. KW - japanese colonialism. KW - korean feminist. KW - korean history. KW - korean women. KW - life changes. KW - life lessons. KW - modernity. KW - pervasive control. KW - political roles. KW - public discourse. KW - radical transformation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870234 AB - This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. Theodore Jun Yoo shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy new positions outside the home, they encountered the pervasive control of the colonial state, which sought to impose modernity on them. While some Korean women conformed to the dictates of colonial hegemony, others took deliberate pains to distinguish between what was "modern" (e.g., Western outfits) and thus legitimate, and what was "Japanese," and thus illegitimate. Yoo argues that what made the experience of these women unique was the dual confrontation with modernity itself and with Japan as a colonial power. ER -