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<div align="center"><b><i>Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship
in South Korea<br>
</i></b>Seungsook Moon<br>
Associate Professor of Sociology<br>
Vassar College<br><br>
(Duke University Press September 2005; Politics, History & Culture
Series)<br>
ISBN: paper, 0-8223-3616-2; cloth, 0-8223-3627-8<br><br>
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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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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<b>Table of Contents<br>
</b>Acknowledgments<br>
A Note on Korean Language Conventions<br><br>
Introduction: The Gender Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in
South Korea<br><br>
Part I Militarized Modernity and Gendered Mass Mobilization, <br>
1963-1987<br>
1. The Historical Roots and the Rise of Militarized Modernity<br>
2. Mobilized to be Martial and Productive: Men's Subjection to the
Nation<br>
and the Masculine Subjectivity of Family
Provider<br>
3. Marginalized in Production and Mobilized to Be Domestic: <br>
Women's Incorporation into the Nation<br><br>
Part II The Decline of Militarized Modernity <br>
and the
Trajectories of Gendered Citizenship, 1988-2002<br>
4. The Decline of Militarized Modernity and the Rise of <br>
the Discourse of Democratization<br>
5. The Trajectory of Men's Citizenship as Shaped by <br>
Military and Economic Mobilization<br>
6. The Trajectory of Women's Citizenship as Shaped by <br>
Their Economic Marginalization as
Reproducers<br><br>
Conclusion: Modernity, Gender, and Citizenship<br><br>
Chronology of Political Events<br>
Notes<br>
References<br>
Index<br>
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Seungsook Moon<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Department of Sociology<br>
Vassar College, Box # 507<br>
124 Raymond Ave.<br>
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604<br>
Tel: 845-437-7662<br>
Fax:845-437-7677<br>
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