The melodrama of mobility : women, talk, and class in contemporary South Korea

The melodrama of mobility : women, talk, and class in contemporary South Korea /

How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of just such dizzyingly rapid development. Abelmann captures the mood, feeling...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abelmann, Nancy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Since 1945
Middle-aged women > Korea (South) > Social conditions.
Middle-aged women > Korea (South) > Economic conditions.
Middle-aged women > Employment > Korea (South)
Social mobility > Korea (South)
Social classes > Korea (South)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Middle-aged women > Economic conditions
Middle-aged women > Employment
Middle-aged women > Social conditions
Social classes
Social conditions
Social mobility
Vrouwen.
Sociale situatie.
Sociale mobiliteit.
Korea (South) > History > 1948-1960.
Korea (South) > History > 1960-1988.
Korea > Social conditions > 1945-
Corée du Sud > Histoire > 1948-1960.
Corée du Sud > Histoire > 1960-1988.
Corée > Conditions sociales > 1945-
Korea
Korea (South)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Melodrama of Mobility
  • The Eight Women
  • Key Words
  • Class Work: Education Stories
  • Social Mobility: "Facts" and "Fictions"
  • Personality Speaking
  • Gendering Displacement: Men, Masculinity, and the Nation
  • All in the Family: Class Distances and Divides
  • When It's All Said and Done ...
  • Conclusion: Living Through Compressed Modernity.

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