[KS] a new book on South Korea
Seungsook Moon
semoon at vassar.edu
Tue Aug 23 17:09:08 EDT 2005
Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea
Seungsook Moon
Associate Professor of Sociology
Vassar College
(Duke University Press September 2005; Politics, History & Culture Series)
ISBN: paper, 0-8223-3616-2; cloth, 0-8223-3627-8
This study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in
the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon
examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into
a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the
pursuit of modernity in South Korea involved the construction of the
anticommunist national identity and a massive effort to mold the populace
into useful, docile members of the state. This process, which she terms
"militarized modernity" treated men and women differently. Men were
mobilized for mandatory military service and then, as conscripts, utilized
as workers and researchers in the industrializing economy. Women were
consigned to lesser factory jobs, and their roles as members of the modern
nation were defined largely in terms of biological reproduction and
household management.
Moon situates militarized modernity in the larger historical context of
colonialism and nationalism in the twentieth century. She follows the
course of militarized modernity in South Korea from its development in the
early 1960s through its peak in the 1970s and its waning after rule by
military dictatorship ceased in 1987. She highlights the crucial role of
the Cold War in South Korea's militarization and the continuities in the
disciplinary tactics used by the Japanese colonial rulers and the
postcolonial regimes. Examining the years after 1987, Moon reveals how
various social movements--particularly the women's and labor
movements--began the still-ongoing process of revitalizing South Korean
civil society and forging citizenship as a new form of membership in the
democratizing nation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Korean Language Conventions
Introduction: The Gender Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in
South Korea
Part I Militarized Modernity and Gendered Mass Mobilization,
1963-1987
1. The Historical Roots and the Rise of Militarized Modernity
2. Mobilized to be Martial and Productive: Men's Subjection to the Nation
and the Masculine Subjectivity of Family Provider
3. Marginalized in Production and Mobilized to Be Domestic:
Women's Incorporation into the Nation
Part II The Decline of Militarized Modernity
and the Trajectories of Gendered Citizenship, 1988-2002
4. The Decline of Militarized Modernity and the Rise of
the Discourse of Democratization
5. The Trajectory of Men's Citizenship as Shaped by
Military and Economic Mobilization
6. The Trajectory of Women's Citizenship as Shaped by
Their Economic Marginalization as Reproducers
Conclusion: Modernity, Gender, and Citizenship
Chronology of Political Events
Notes
References
Index
Seungsook Moon
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Vassar College, Box # 507
124 Raymond Ave.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
Tel: 845-437-7662
Fax:845-437-7677
http://faculty.vassar.edu/semoon/professional/vitae.html
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