Living on your own : single women, rental housing, and post-revolutionary affect in contemporary South Korea / Jesook Song ; cover art, Seung won Oh ; photograph, Seung hwa Park ; production, Laurie Searl ; marketing, Anne M. Valentine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Song, Jesook, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Oh, Seung won, cover designer.

Park, Seung hwa, photographer.

Searl, Laurie, production manager.

Valentine, Anne M., distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single women--Housing--Korea (South).

Rental housing--Korea (South).

Single women--Korea (South).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Living on Your Own is an ethnography of young, single women in South Korea who seek to live independently. Using extensive interviews, along with media analysis and archival research, Jesook Song traces the women's difficulties in achieving residential autonomy. Song exposes the clash between the women's burgeoning desire for independent lives and the ongoing incursion of traditional, conservative family ideology and marriage pressure into housing practices and financial institutions. She pays particular attention to the Korean rent system and the reliance on lump-sum cash even for basic subsistence, which promotes tight control of young adults' lives by family and kinship networks. The young women whose voices feature prominently in this book are a prototype of global youth in crisis: caught between aspirations for the self-development and flexible lifestyle championed by globalizing media and communication technology and the reality of their position as flexible labor in a neoliberal economy.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in the Context of the Global Youth Crisis""; ""Situating the Single Women in This Book""; ""Contexts of Rental Housing, Financializations, and Affect of Enjoyment""; ""1 Journey to a Room of One�s Own""; ""Sexual Moral Regime""; ""Moving Out to Go to University in the City""; ""Moving out When Parents Live in the Same Area""; ""Moving out at Odds""; ""After Moving Out""; ""2 Unmarried Women�s Housing and Financial Insecurities""; ""Residential Options for Unmarried Women""

""Bibliography""""Audiovisual Materials (Listed by Translated Title)""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438450148

1438450141

OCLC:

874029357