Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea , livre ebook

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9780822387312

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This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the pursuit of modernity in South Korea involved the construction of the anticommunist national identity and a massive effort to mold the populace into useful, docile members of the state. This process, which she terms "militarized modernity," treated men and women differently. Men were mobilized for mandatory military service and then, as conscripts, utilized as workers and researchers in the industrializing economy. Women were consigned to lesser factory jobs, and their roles as members of the modern nation were defined largely in terms of biological reproduction and household management.Moon situates militarized modernity in the historical context of colonialism and nationalism in the twentieth century. She follows the course of militarized modernity in South Korea from its development in the early 1960s through its peak in the 1970s and its decline after rule by military dictatorship ceased in 1987. She highlights the crucial role of the Cold War in South Korea's militarization and the continuities in the disciplinary tactics used by the Japanese colonial rulers and the postcolonial military regimes. Moon reveals how, in the years since 1987, various social movements-particularly the women's and labor movements-began the still-ongoing process of revitalizing South Korean civil society and forging citizenship as a new form of membership in the democratizing nation.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

30 septembre 2005

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822387312

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

M I L I TA R I Z E D M O D E R N I T Y A N D

G E N D E R E D C I T I Z E N S H I P I N S O U T H K O R E A

Map of Korean Peninsula

POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE

A series from the International Institute

at the University of Michigan

Series Editors:George Steinmetz and Julia Adams

Series Editorial Advisory Board:Fernando Coronil, Mamadou Diouf, Michael Dutton, Geoﬀ Eley, Fatma Müge Göcek, Nancy Rose Hunt, Andreas Kalyvas Webb Keane, David Laitin, Lydia Liu, Julie Skurski, Margaret Somers, Ann Laura Stoler, Katherine Verdery, Elizabeth Wingrove

Sponsored by the International Institute at the University of Michigan and published by Duke University Press, this series is centered around cultural and historical studies of power, politics, and the state—a ﬁeld that cuts across the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies. The focus on the relation-ship between state and culture refers both to a method-ological approach—the study of politics and the state using culturalist methods—and to a substantive one that treats signifying practices as an essential dimension of politics. The dialectic of politics, culture, and history ﬁg-ures prominently in all the books selected for the series.

M ILITARIZED M ODERN ITY AN D

GEN DERED CITIZEN SHIP IN SOUTH KOREA

Seungsook Moon

Duke University PressDurham and London

©  Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Minion by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

To Farzin, Dosŏn, and Mahin

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix A Note on Korean Language Conventions xi

Introduction: The Gender Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in South Korea 

PA R T I. M I L I TA R I Z E D M O D E R N I T Y A N D G E N D E R E D

M A S S M O B I L I Z AT I O N , 1 9 6 3 – 1 9 8 7

. The Historical Roots and the Rise of Militarized Modernity 

. Mobilized to Be Martial and Productive: Men’s Subjection to the Nation and the Masculine Subjectivity of Family Provider 

. Marginalized in Production and Mobilized to Be Domestic: Women’s Incorporation into the Nation 

PA R T I I. T H E D E C L I N E O F M I L I TA R I Z E D M O D E R N I T Y

A N D T H E T R A J E C T O R I E S O F G E N D E R E D C I T I Z E N S H I P,

1 9 8 8 – 2 0 0 2

. The Decline of Militarized Modernity and the Rise of the Discourse of Democratization 

. The Trajectory of Men’s Citizenship as Shaped by Military and Economic Mobilization 

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Contents

. The Trajectory of Women’s Citizenship as Shaped by Their Economic Marginalization as Reproducers 

Conclusion: Modernity, Gender, and Citizenship 

Chronology of Political Events  Notes  References  Index 

ACKNOW LEDGM ENTS

In the process of doing research and writing this book, I have beneﬁted from the support of numerous individuals. Graciously sharing their time and thoughts, many people turned the seemingly solitary endeavor into intersubjective engagements. I would like to thank Roger Janelli, Laurel Ken-dall, and Uma Narayan for reading an earlier version of this book. I would also like to thank Nancy Abelmann, Cynthia Enloe, and John Lie for their inter-ests in my work and reading all or parts of a later version. Their comments were very helpful for sharpening my ideas. I also owe thanks to Martha Kaplan and Eileen Leonard for their intellectual support. I gained substantially from my conversations with Joo-hyun Cho, Hyaeweol Choi, Chŏng-hŭi Kim, Seung Kyung Kim, and Kwang-yŏung Shin at various stages of writing this book. The birth of this book would not have been possible without the generous assistance I received from Vassar College, including a one-year sabbatical leave and several faculty research grants. My appointment as a visiting scholar at the Korea Institute at Harvard University during fall  and fall  also facilitated my writing. My thanks go to Carter Eckert, Sunjoo Kim, and David McCann for cordially hosting me. I would also like to thank J. Reynolds Smith, my editor at Duke University Press, for appreciating my work for what it is and recognizing its relevance beyond Korean studies or East Asian studies. Al-though this book is a study separate from my dissertation, special thanks go to my mentors Gordon Fellman and Shulamit Reinharz at Brandeis University, who have given me enduring nurturance. Joy Hyun Kim at the Korea Heritage Library at the University of Southern California and Angy Kim and Peter Owens, my student assistants at Vassar College, gave me reliable assistance for my research. I would also like to thank the late T’ae-wu Yi and Paek-kwan Sŏng for helping me to carry out research at the Institute for Defense Analysis. For collecting the valuable pictures that appear in this book, I am in-

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