Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea explores the relationship between media representation and gender politics, challenging traditional gender conventions and shaping civic, political, and cultural debates. It presents innovative research on the discursive production of gender through mass mediation, offering cases and media objects across multiple media and platforms.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2024
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea is a groundbreaking academic volume that explores the relationship between media representation and gender politics in South Korea. Its chapters feature notable voices of South Korea's burgeoning sphere of gender critique enabled by social media, making it a unique and valuable contribution to the field of Anglophone studies on this topic. The volume seeks to interrogate the role of popular media in establishing and shaping gendered common sense, arguing that gender discourse and representation are central to the politics, aesthetics, and economics of contemporary South Korea. In the post-authoritarian period (the late 1980s to the #MeToo present), media representation and popular discourse have changed the gender conventions that are found at the core of civic, political, and cultural debates. Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea maps the ways in which popular media and public discourse make the social dynamics of gender visible and open them up for debate and dismantling. In presenting innovative new research on the ways in which popular ideas about gender gain concrete form and political substance through mass mediation, our contributors investigate the discursive production of gender in contemporary South Korea through trends, tropes, and thematics, as popular media become the domain in which new gendered subjectivities and relations transpire. The essays in this volume present cases and media objects that span multiple media and platforms, introducing new ways of thinking about gender as a platform and a conceptual infrastructure in the post-authoritarian era.

Weight: 514g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780472056668