Overview
Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this crucial cultural movement. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and the key female actors of this global phenomenon. Using ""women"" as an inclusive term extending to all those who self-define as women, this volume examines the role of women in K-pop and K-drama industries and fandom spaces, encompassing crucial intersectional topics such as queering of gender, dissemination of media, and fan culture. In addition to the communities engaged with visual culture of the Korean Wave, the audience for Women We Love will reflect the contributors to this text. They are K-pop and K-drama fans, queer, international; they are also academics of Asian histories, sociology, gender and sexuality, art history, and visual culture. The chapters are playful, intersectional, and will be adapted well into syllabi for media studies, gender studies, visual culture studies, sociology, and contemporary global history.
Full Product Details
Author: Soojin Lee ,
Kate Korroch ,
Liew Kai Khiun
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789888754205
ISBN 10: 9888754203
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 15 November 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""The volume is remarkably ambitious in bringing together a cohort of international thinkers on a wide range of topics: from the tomboy trope in K-drama to the image of 'ssen-unni' (strong sisters) in K-pop girl groups, from the role of social media platforms in the 'celebrification' of new K-pop idols to the marketing tactic of K-pop idols presenting homoerotic moments on reality TV called 'business gay performance, ' and from a North Korean girl group--or rather what the author teases as 'NK-pop'--to K-pop fan clubs' financing of political protests in Thailand. Together, the volume unquestionably fulfills its aim to present new frameworks for understanding the femininities circulating among Korean Wave stars and their fans.""-- ""Pacific Affairs""
Author Information
SooJin Lee is an art historian and assistant professor at Hongik University. Kate Korroch is a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Liew Kai Khiun is assistant professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University.
