Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea. [Gendered construction of Songinbyong; Gender construction in the offices of a South Korean conglomerate; Female sexuality in Korean popular culture; et

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002., 2002. As New. Pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; viii, 206 pp. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0824824881 ; LCCN: 2001-28121 ; OCLC: 46240370 ; Contents: Women, mobility, and desire: narrating class and gender in South Korea / Nancy Abelmann -- Discourses of illness, meanings of modernity: a gendered construction of Songinbyong / June J.H. Lee -- The production and subversion of hegemonic masculinity: reconfiguring gender hierarchy in contemporary South Korea / Seungsook Moon -- Gender construction in the offices of a South Korean conglomerate / Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim -- The concept of female sexuality in Korean popular culture / So-Hee Lee -- Living with conflicting subjectivities: mother, motherly wife, and sexy woman in the transition from colonial-modern to postmodern Korea / Cho Haejoang ; "a portrait of south Koreans in the 1990s--a decade that saw a return to civilian rule, a loosening of censorship and social control, and the emergence of a full-blown consumer culture. It shows how these change s impacted the lives of Korean men and women and the definition of what it means to be "male" and "female" in Korea." ; front corner slightly bent, else AS NEW