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Women, television and everyday life in Korea : journeys of hope /
Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book presents a compelling account of women's changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television. Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernity, Youna Kim a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in Korean studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of hope; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I General issues; 1 Women, television and everyday life; Section (1) Western literature; Section (2) Korean literature; 2 The socio-economic position of women in Korea; Section (1) Confucianism; Section (2) Education; Section (3) Work; Section (4) Marriage and family; Section (5) Sexuality; 3 The body, TV talk and emotion; Section (1) A normative ideal of the body: who could be there?; Section (2) TV talk as a method; Section (3) Emotion as an effect; Part II Working-class women.
- 4 Living in the traditional waySection (1) The misery of everyday life: TV, gender and emotion; Section (2) Power of everyday life: son as a tactic; Section (3) Reading against primetime feminism; Section (4) TV realism and identification; Section (5) Reinvigorating tradition; 5 Coping and adapting: Family life in transition; Section (1) TV rituals, security and intimacy; Section (2) TV and childcare: "I try not to watch TV because of the child"; Section (3) Fantasy of dominance; Section (4) A-ha! Emotion: reading the popular; 6 Yearning for change: The younger generation.
- Section (1) Work, marriage and feminismSection (2) Representation of women on Korean television: "it's always killing smart women"; Section (3) Play in the global telecity: "TV is my best friend"; Section (4) Representation of the West in the Korean imagination: yearning for free choice, social mobility and change; Section (5) Rejecting Western sexuality; Part III Middle-class women; 7 Older women in control: Power and domesticity; Section (1) TV, emotion and shifting power: "now it's women's times!"; Section (2) Middle-class leisure and television.
- Section (3) TV reflexivity: women's work and childcareSection (4) Family, TV and moral discourse; 8 Professional young mothers: The care of the self; Section (1) Unavailability of husband, TV and childcare; Section (2) Child education and professionalization of motherhood; Section (3) Escape into romance: "I will be always there for you"; 9 Becoming an individual: Lifestyle and life choices; Section (1) Employment and uncertainty: whose individualization?; Section (2) A return to pleasure: entertainment and hope; Section (3) Talking back to the West: but who will listen?
- Part IV Journeys of hope10 Conclusion; Section (1) Reflexivity at work; Section (2) Class, generation and reflexivity; Section (3) Tradition/morality/family/nation (Women in their 50s); Section (4) Transition/negotiation/intimacy/emotion (Women in their 30s); Section (5) Openness/play/imagination/freedom (Women in their 20s); Section (6) The tradition-/the inner-/the Other-directed culture of everyday life; Appendix: List of interviewees; Bibliography; Index.