Gender, Family, and Social Change

This course examines the transformation of Korean society beginning around the turn of the 20th century to contemporary times. In particular, it explores how shifting categories of masculinity, and by contrast, femininity have impacted upon, and in turn been influenced by social, cultural, and political change.

The class will draw on a variety of topics such as traditional views of women, religion, race, class, education, patriarchy, sexuality, imperialism, modernity, war, globalization, the diaspora, among others. Special attention will be placed on the historical, transnational and transdisciplinary connections.

Section

1
The Gendering of Modernity And Military Authoritarianism
15 min
Broad overview of Korean history and literature beginning in the Joseon period with a particular focus on a series of social and cultural transformations that would have profound impact on the gender relations starting with Confucianism.

Learning Objectives

  • To recognize the durability and persistence of forms of gender and sexual inequality.
  • To sensitize students to the position of women in Korean society.
  • To recognize “gender relations” as a laborious process that requires interaction with special formations of power, of institutions, practices and discourses that establish, and regulate its shape and meaning.
2
The un(making) of modern Family
10 min
Introduction to the strategically gendered division of role in making modern Korean families and contemporary changes in the perception of marriage and family in Korea.

Learning Objectives

  • To discuss how a form of modern family is born and unmade in the contemporary Korea
  • To identify the role of manager moms in the making of modern Korean families, and how specific gendered division of roles in both private and public lead to recent changes in Korean families
  • To understand how globalizing structures and compositions of Korean families challenges what marriage, intimacy, cultural diversity, gender roles within families, and human rights of foreigners are to Korea as a state

 

 
3
Globalization of the family
8 min

understanding how globalizing structures and compositions of  families challenges what marriage, intimacy, cultural diversity, gender roles within families, and human rights of foreigners are to  as a state


4
Female Beauty / Male Beauty And Body Aesthestics
6 min
Examine a range of topics including cosmetic surgery to male circumcision and body lines to understand how female and male beauty standards and aesthetics have changed over the past two centuries.

Learning Objectives

  • To analyze the intersectionality of class, gender, race and sexuality.

 

 
5
textbook helps boys find masculine side
10 min

Chinese textbook helps boys find masculine side amid ‘gender crisis’ caused by effeminate men in Japanese, Korean culture

6
Plastic-surgery the cost of beauty
10 min

Discussion Point

7
Neoliberalism and Stratified Korean Society
7 min

Neoliberalism and Stratified Korean Society

Section

1
Sexuality in Korea
20 min
Discuss the issues of sexualities in contemporary Korea, ranging from the relationship between family and sexuality, commodified sexuality, to the issues of sexual minorities.

Learning Objectives

  • To identify what sexuality is and how it is culturally mediated
  • To understand the sexual desires, gendered expectations, sexual identity and sexual relations of Koreans are socially constructed and is thus changing
  • To examine sexuality as the interface between the social context and personal experiences, and find out how the social factors such as gender, class, and sexual orientations shape the experiences of Korean people
 
2
Gender Equality and Current Debate
13 min



3
Feminism Movement in South Korea
6 min

Feminism in south Korea 

4
Family and Sexuality in Korea
8min

 Family and Sexuality in Korea

5
Sexual Minorities in Korea
4 min

 Sexual Minorities in Korea

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Working hours

Monday 9:30 am - 6.00 pm
Tuesday 9:30 am - 6.00 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am - 6.00 pm
Thursday 9:30 am - 6.00 pm
Friday 9:30 am - 5.00 pm
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed