State, Rural Women, and Domestication in Korea: The Aspiring Middle Class
Author:   Jaok Kwon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367627225


Pages:   134
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
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State, Rural Women, and Domestication in Korea: The Aspiring Middle Class


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Author:   Jaok Kwon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9780367627225


ISBN 10:   0367627221
Pages:   134
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Introduction: Modernization, the State, and Rural Women 1. Rural Development in the 1960s and 1970s in South Korea 2. (Re)defining Work: Rural Women in Productive and Domestic Labor 3. Family Planning, Nation Building, and Rural Motherhood 4. Rural Women as Saving Agents: The Morals of Frugality, Thriftiness, and Saving 5. State-led Rural Women’s Organizations and the Making of Rural ""Housewives"" 6. Gendered Social Mobility Strategies and Limited Negotiation Conclusion: Gender, Class, and State-Society Relations

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Jaok Kwon is a research fellow in the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her research interests include the sociology of development, labor and gender in East Asia, and transnational labor migration.

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