Women we love: femininities and the Korean wave.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, SooJin, editor.

Korroch, Kate, editor.

Kai Khiun, Liew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Femininity.

Popular culture--Korea.

Popular culture.

Gender identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this global phenomenon. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and key female actors of the Korean Wave. Using “women” as an inclusive term extending to all those who self-define as women, this volume examines the role of women and femininities in K-pop and K-drama industries and fandom spaces, encompassing crucial intersectional topics such as queering of gender, dissemination of media, and fan culture. The chapters are playful and intersectional, contributed by academics of cultural studies, gender studies, visual culture, popular culture, art history, sociology, and media studies who are also fans, queer, and international.

Contents:

Contents

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgments

Note on Romanization

Introduction: Femininities and the Korean Wave

Part I. Characters We Love

Is Femininity Hard? Naming Femininities in the Age of Soft Masculinity

Tomboy in Love: Korean and US Views of Heterosexual Eroticism in the K-Drama First Shop of Coffee Prince

Miss Kim: God of the Workplace

Part II. More than Girl Groups

Ella Gross and Child Social Media Stars: Rising to Fame through K-Pop Idol Trainee Systems, Mixed-Raceness, and Tabloid Cycle Controversies

Girl Groups in Uniform: Moranbong Band and the Staging of NK-Pop in and out of North Korea

Ssen-Unni in K-Pop: The Making of "Strong Sisters" in South Korea

Part III. Fans and Fan-Producers

Alpeseu (RPS) and Business Gay Performance in the Korean K-Pop World

Females, Frontliners, Fringes: K-Pop's Performers and Protesters from Southeast Asia

Riding the Korean Wave in Iran: Cyberfeminism and Pop Culture among Young Iranian Women

Into the New World: From the Objectification to the Empowerment of Girls' Generation

Notes on the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes Index.

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ISBN:

9789888805464