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This work is important to those interested in the gender politics of South Korea, as well as social scientists studying capitalism, financialization, or development. - Gendered Perspectives on International Development ...Song's book focusing on single women and rental housing in South Korea is particularly welcome and useful. - Critique of Anthropology

...Song's detailed depiction of the various patterns of postrevolutionary adjustments of former activists in South Korea is in itself most valuable and deserves attention. - American Anthropologist This is an account of some members of a pivotal generation of South Korean women and it gains poignancy from the author's own deep identification with her subjects. Song has a clear sense of her terrain and tells her story concisely and effectively ... She also contributes a fresh chapter to the unfolding story of South Korean women and begs reflection on the global phenomenon of under-employed educated young adults. - Pacific Affairs This work is important to those interested in the gender politics of South Korea, as well as social scientists studying capitalism, financialization, or development. - Gendered Perspectives on International Development ...Song's book focusing on single women and rental housing in South Korea is particularly welcome and useful. - Critique of Anthropology

""...Song's detailed depiction of the various patterns of postrevolutionary adjustments of former activists in South Korea is in itself most valuable and deserves attention."" - American Anthropologist ""This is an account of some members of a pivotal generation of South Korean women and it gains poignancy from the author's own deep identification with her subjects. Song has a clear sense of her terrain and tells her story concisely and effectively ... She also contributes a fresh chapter to the unfolding story of South Korean women and begs reflection on the global phenomenon of under-employed educated young adults."" - Pacific Affairs ""This work is important to those interested in the gender politics of South Korea, as well as social scientists studying capitalism, financialization, or development."" - Gendered Perspectives on International Development ""...Song's book focusing on single women and rental housing in South Korea is particularly welcome and useful."" - Critique of Anthropology

"""...Song's detailed depiction of the various patterns of postrevolutionary adjustments of former activists in South Korea is in itself most valuable and deserves attention."" - American Anthropologist ""This is an account of some members of a pivotal generation of South Korean women and it gains poignancy from the author's own deep identification with her subjects. Song has a clear sense of her terrain and tells her story concisely and effectively ... She also contributes a fresh chapter to the unfolding story of South Korean women and begs reflection on the global phenomenon of under-employed educated young adults."" - Pacific Affairs ""This work is important to those interested in the gender politics of South Korea, as well as social scientists studying capitalism, financialization, or development."" - Gendered Perspectives on International Development ""...Song's book focusing on single women and rental housing in South Korea is particularly welcome and useful."" - Critique of Anthropology"

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Jesook Song is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society and the editor of New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements.

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