Title The politics of gender in colonial Korea : education, labor, and health, 1910-1945 / Theodore Jun Yoo.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
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Description	1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) : illustrations.
	text file
Series	Asia Pacific modern ; 3
	Asia Pacific modern ; 3.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-301) and index.
Summary	This study examines how the concept of 'Korean woman' underwent a radical transformation during the years of Japanese colonialism. The author shows that as women began to occupy positions outside the home, they encountered the pervasive control of the colonial state, which sought to impose modernity on them.
Contents	Women in Chosŏn Korea -- The "new woman" and the politics of love, marriage, and divorce in colonial Korea -- The female worker : from home to the factory -- Discoursing in numbers : the female worker and the politics of gender -- The colonized body : Korean women's sexuality and health.
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Subject	Japanese Occupation of Korea (Korea : 1910-1945)
	Women -- Korea -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Women.
	Korea.
	Social conditions.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Sex role -- Korea -- History -- 20th century.
	Sex role.
	History.
	Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
	Gender roles.
Other Form:	Print version: Yoo, Theodore Jun, 1972- Politics of gender in colonial Korea. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008 9780520252882 (DLC) 2007040017 (OCoLC)174112634
ISBN	0520252888 (cloth)
	9780520252882 (cloth)
	9781282359338
	9780520934153 (electronic book)
	0520934156 (electronic book)

Title The politics of gender in colonial Korea : education, labor, and health, 1910-1945 / Theodore Jun Yoo.

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