Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea Journeys of Hope [Paperback]

Fusing audience research and ethnography,the bookpresents a compelling account of womens 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 analyzes how Korean women of varying age and class group cope with the new environment of changing economical structure and social relations. The book argues that television is an important resource for women, stimulating them to research their own lives and identities. Youna Kim reveals Korean women as creative, energetic and critical audiences in their responses to evolving modernity and the impact of the West.

Based on original empirical research, the book explores the hopes, aspirations, frustrations and dilemmas of Korean women as they try to cope with life beyond traditional grounds. Going beyond the traditional Anglo-American view of media and culture, this text will appeal to students and scholars of both Korean area studies and media and communications studies.

Part 1: General Issues  1. Women, Television and Everyday Life  1.1 Western Literature  1.2 Korean Literature  2. The Socio-Economic Position of Women in Korea  2.1 Confucianism  2.2 Education  2.3 Work  2.4 Marriage and Family 

2.5 Sexuality  3. The Body, TV Talk and Emotion  3.1 A Normative Ideal of the Body: Who Could be There?  3.2 TV Talk as a Method  3.3 Emotion as an Effect  Part 2: Working Class Women  4. Living in the Traditional Way  4.1 Misery of Everyday Life: TV, Gender and Emotion  4.2 Power of Everyday Life: Son as a Tactic  4.3 Reading Against Primetime Feminism  4.4 TV Realil#—