Since the end of World War II until now, South Korea has rapidly transformed from an underdeveloped, war-ridden country to one of the most developed countries in the world. Yet, in some respects, like gender equality, South Korea remains woefully underdeveloped. South Korea’s notions of a ...
Gender Bias in China, South Korea and India 1920-1990: Effects of War, Famine and Fertility Decline.Explores the extent to which excess female child mortality was influenced by historical events in China, South Korea, and India in the period 1920-90, and discusses some of the substantial ...
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1998 during the currency crisis known as the "IMF era" in South Korea, this dissertation studies the progressive women's movement, especially activism on violence against women, in the context of a newly-democratizing civil society. It examines feminist...
. On the other hand, Asian females are portrayed as dependent, submissive, exotically feminine, and domestic, free from the “annoying feminism” that has infected White women, as shown in the so-called “war brides” and “mail-ordered brides”. As my own observation, in almost all ...
Eunjung Kim in Curative Violence lays bare the disavowal of debility, chronic illness, and disability in South Korea from the period of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) to the contemporary present. She accomplishes this by tracing the construction of what she calls the "imperative to cure"...
There are several reasons for the change. One motive is simply commercial, Wonder Woman like her male superhero counterparts, experiences a fall-off in popularity after the war. Another relates to expectations of gender roles in America. So much of America’s manhood is away during the world ...
Re-imagining a new town: The architecture of empowerment and segregation in a Dutch post-war neighbourhood Architects meet a practical need for places to dwell, work, rest or play, but they tend to operate on the premises of an artist. There is, however, somethi... L Reinders 被引量: ...
In 1951, Xiangyu Chang, the master of Henan opera, donated a “Xiangyu Jushe” fighter jet to the army during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, mainly using proceeds from portraying “Mulan” in her charity performances. In October 1956, Changchun Film Studio made an opera fi...
The most recent, and perhaps stunning, example of this war is political reaction to the horrible shootings at massage parlors in Atlanta. Six of the eight people killed were identified as Asian, though that term encompasses everyone from China, Japan, Korea, India, the Arab Peninsula, the Midd...