State, Rural Women, and Domestication in Korea: The Aspiring Middle Class (Routledge Advances in Korean Studies) - Hardcover

Kwon, Jaok

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367627191 ISBN 13: 9780367627195

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This book explores the dynamic interactions between the state and society during the industrialization of South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on rural women as a marginalized social group.

By illuminating rural women’s interactions with the state and their aspirations for entering the middle class, it effectively reveals insights into the gender and class perspectives of industrialization in South Korea. Utilizing an analysis of personal letters from peasant movement activists, documents and periodicals issued by the Korean Catholic Peasant Women’s Organization, as well as in-depth interviews with farmers, housewives, activists of the peasant movements, and governmental officers, this book represents a reconsideration of state-society relations, as well as a reinterpretation of housewife ideology theory.

Highlighting the often-invisible experiences of marginalized rural women, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Korean Studies, Women’s Studies, and Rural Studies.

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About the Author

Jaok Kwon is a research fellow in the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her research interests include the sociology of development, labor and gender in East Asia, and transnational labor migration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367627191
• ISBN 13: 9780367627195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142