Women, television and everyday life in Korea : journeys of hope / Youna Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Youna, author.

Series:

Routledge Advances in Korean Studies ; 6.

Routledge advances in Korean studies ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and women--Korea.

Television and women.

Women--Korea--Identity.

Women.

Women--Korea--Social conditions.

Women on television.

Television and women--Korea (South).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 236 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Journeys of hope

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Korea is currently witnessing huge social change with unprecedented divorce rates and the disintegration of the traditional family system. Fusing audience research and ethnography, Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea presents a compelling account of women's changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life-television. Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernization Kim analyses how Korean women of varying age and class groups cope with the new environment of changing economical structures and social relations. The central arguments presented revolve around the revelatory and self-reflexive nature of TV talk and its function as a form of empowerment. The book argues that television is an important resource for women, stimulating them to research their own lives and identities. Kim reveals Korean women as creative, energetic, and critical audiences in their responses to evolving modernity and the impact of the West."-- Publisher description.

Contents:

Cover; Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of hope; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I General issues; 1 Women, television and everyday life; Section (1) Western literature; Section (2) Korean literature; 2 The socio-economic position of women in Korea; Section (1) Confucianism; Section (2) Education; Section (3) Work; Section (4) Marriage and family; Section (5) Sexuality; 3 The body, TV talk and emotion; Section (1) A normative ideal of the body: who could be there?; Section (2) TV talk as a method; Section (3) Emotion as an effect; Part II Working-class women

4 Living in the traditional way Section (1) The misery of everyday life: TV, gender and emotion; Section (2) Power of everyday life: son as a tactic; Section (3) Reading against primetime feminism; Section (4) TV realism and identification; Section (5) Reinvigorating tradition; 5 Coping and adapting: Family life in transition; Section (1) TV rituals, security and intimacy; Section (2) TV and childcare: "I try not to watch TV because of the child"; Section (3) Fantasy of dominance; Section (4) A-ha! Emotion: reading the popular; 6 Yearning for change: The younger generation

Section (1) Work, marriage and feminism Section (2) Representation of women on Korean television: "it's always killing smart women"; Section (3) Play in the global telecity: "TV is my best friend"; Section (4) Representation of the West in the Korean imagination: yearning for free choice, social mobility and change; Section (5) Rejecting Western sexuality; Part III Middle-class women; 7 Older women in control: Power and domesticity; Section (1) TV, emotion and shifting power: "now it's women's times!"; Section (2) Middle-class leisure and television

Section (3) TV reflexivity: women's work and childcare Section (4) Family, TV and moral discourse; 8 Professional young mothers: The care of the self; Section (1) Unavailability of husband, TV and childcare; Section (2) Child education and professionalization of motherhood; Section (3) Escape into romance: "I will be always there for you"; 9 Becoming an individual: Lifestyle and life choices; Section (1) Employment and uncertainty: whose individualization?; Section (2) A return to pleasure: entertainment and hope; Section (3) Talking back to the West: but who will listen?

Part IV Journeys of hope 10 Conclusion; Section (1) Reflexivity at work; Section (2) Class, generation and reflexivity; Section (3) Tradition/morality/family/nation (Women in their 50s); Section (4) Transition/negotiation/intimacy/emotion (Women in their 30s); Section (5) Openness/play/imagination/freedom (Women in their 20s); Section (6) The tradition-/the inner-/the Other-directed culture of everyday life; Appendix: List of interviewees; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-22466-4

9786613832283

1-283-51983-6

1-134-22467-2

0-203-02933-X

9780203029336

OCLC:

804661502