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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>Dear Ms. Hwang:<BR>
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I have observed cross-dressing in Korean shamanism, particularly among those of the northern, charismatic style mudang. I wrote a brief essay on it in Kyoto Journal’s special issue “Unbound: Gender in Asia” (#64). <a href="http://www.kyotojournal.org/kjback/kjback64.html.">http://www.kyotojournal.org/kjback/kjback64.html.</a> There may be other items of interest there (print as well as special content online).<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>YM Clara Hwang <sumovmi@hotmail.com><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:36:11 +0000<BR>
<B>To: </B><koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[KS] Query: soft-masculinity and cross-dressing in Korean context<BR>
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Dear members,<BR>
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My questions are two-fold. First, I'm interested in reading more the rise of feminine or soft mascuilnity in Korean context, portrayed in the popular media. It seems to me the neither post-femininst mascuilinity or rise of new men seen in the Western discourse nor the spread of Japanese manga (yaoi and BL in particular) influencing the construction of new type of masculinity in SK do not sufficiently explain this phenonenon. Have you come across any scholarship that provides sound Korean socio-political context supported by theoretical framework? <BR>
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Second question, I was greatly intrigued by the representation of cross-dressing in TV and films (King and the Clown, The Painter of the Wind, Coffee Prince, etc), which of course intersects with the my first question (and gender and queer theory). As far as I'm aware of Korea does not have defining cultural tradition of transvestite theatres like Beijing opera or Japanese Noh theatre. Or am I mis-informed? Is there any scholarship on the tradition of cross-dressing in Korea? <BR>
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Thank you.<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
Yun Mi Hwang<BR>
PhD Candidate<BR>
University of St Andrews<BR>
ymh@st-andrews.ac.uk<BR>
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