Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and South Korea

Youna Kim is Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France, and previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She is the author and editor of eleven books, including Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005), The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (Routledge, 2013), The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama (Routledge, 2021), and Introducing Korean Popular Culture (Routledge, 2023).

• Introduction; Mapping Gender, Sexuality and South Korea on the Move - Youna Kim; Part I Formation of Gender and Sexuality; 1. Religious and Philosophical Traditions in the Formation of Gender and Sexuality - Kevin N. Cawley; 2. Colonial Modernity, Gender and Sexuality through Korean Press Satire - Anna Diniejko-Wąs; 3. Christianity and Female Self-Fashioning across Colonial and Transpacific Worlds - Jina E. Kim; 4. Korean “Comfort Women”: The Intersection of Colonial Power, Gender and Class - Pyong Gap Min; 5. Hetero-Authoritarianism as Everyday Disaster: Anatomical Conformity and its “Queer” Challenges in Postwar South Korea - Todd A. Henry; 6. Industrialization as a Process of Modernizing Gender Hierarchy - Seungsook Moon; 7. Confucian Legacies and the (Re)Making of Gender and Sexuality - Andrew Eungi Kim; Part II Transforming South Korea; 8. The Unfinished Business of Democratization: Tracing South Korea’s Gender War - Gi-Wook Shin and Irene Kyoung; 9. Populism and Gendered Youth Politics: Mobilizing Young Men - Hannes B. Mosler; 10. Education Fever, Intensive Mothering and Social Capital - Michael J. Seth; 11. Private Tutoring and the Reproduction of Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities - Álvaro Choi and Hoon Choi; 12. Employment, Productive and Reproductive Labor - Thomas R. Klassen and Sukyong Yang;13. Gender, Housework and Fertility - Soo-Yeon Yoon and In Choi; 14. The LGBTQ Movement and Human Rights - Gabriel Jonsson; Part III Cultural South Korea; 15. Re-reading Han Kang’s The Vegetarian - Chaeyeon Park; 16. Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Literature: From Silence to Voice - Kelly Jeong; 17. The Changing Representation of the Heroine in the 1990s Literature: Marriage as a Way Out? - Miriam Löwensteinová; 18. Translation as Queer Non-Normative Embodiment - Jae Won Edward Chung; 19. Queer Art against Disambiguation - Jongwoo Jeremy Kim; 20. Contemporary Art: Gender, Sexuality and Dislocated Bodies - SooJin Lee; 21. Body Politics, Lookism and Mukbang: The Satiety-Fame-Diet - Antonetta L. Bruno; 22. Gendering Food Culture: Celebrity Chefs as Cultural Intermediaries - Jaehyeon Jeong; Part IV Popular Media Culture; 23. Why Study Popular Media Culture? - Youna Kim; 24. Motherhood as Horror in Television Drama and Film - Bonnie Tilland; 25. K-pop Girl Groups: From Gender Critique to Feminist Agency - Jimmyn Parc; 26. Women, Space and “New National” Cinema: From Remasculinization to Reimagination - Gemma Ballard; 27. Vulnerable Bodies and Ecofeminist Interventions in Cinema - Dong Hoon Kim; 28 Molar-Molecular Queerness in Popular Media Culture: Autoethnography and Ethnography - Aljoša Pužar; 29. Queerness as Soft Power: Cruel Optimism from K-pop to Love in the Big City - Zoran Lee Pecic; 30. Shifting Narratives from K-dramas to Netflix K-Originals: Love, Authenticity and Transnational Connectivity - Hyejung Ju; Part V Digital South Korea; 31. From Web Dramas to OTT Originals: The Rise of “Boys Love” - Jennifer M. Kang; 32. Webtoon and the Reconfiguration of Masculinity: Crying Men and Precarious Lives - Jahyon Park; 33. Gaming and Esports Culture as a Battlefield of Gender Politics - Tae-Jin Yoon and Hyomin Lee; 34. Online Politics and Gendered Transformation: Historical Contours of Contestation - Jiyeon Kang; 35. Queer Mediated Mobility and Affective Counterpublics in Digital Space - Woori Han; 36. In the AI Turn: Techno-Capitalism, Gender and K-pop - Sarah Keith; 37. AI and the Algorithmic Reproduction of Affective Femininity - Giuseppina De Nicola; 38. Facilitator or Disruptor?: AI and Gendered Youth Culture - Seok Kang; Part VI Mobile South Korea; 39. Korean Women’s Transnational Gender Journeys: Between Seoul, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles - Kyeyoung Park; 40. Digital Diaspora and Political Engagement: Care-Based Actions of Women - Hojeong Lee; 41. Youth, Gender and Race in Diasporic Beauty Vlogging - Sherry S. Yu and Alice Nahyeon Kim; 42. Performing Masculinity through Diasporic Cooking - David C. Oh; 43. Diasporic Queerscapes and Intimate Heterotopias in Korean American Films: Mirrors, Spas and Koreatown - Ji-Yeon O. Jo; 44. K-pop Demon Hunters: Feminist Readings of Mental Health and Hybrid Identity - Jin-Ae Kang and Do Kyun David Kim