Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea

Youna Kim is Lecturer in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Part 1: General Issues 1. Women, Television and Everyday Life 1.1 Western Literature 1.2 Korean Literature 2. The Socio-Economic Position of Women in Korea 2.1 Confucianism 2.2 Education 2.3 Work 2.4 Marriage and Family 2.5 Sexuality 3. The Body, TV Talk and Emotion 3.1 A Normative Ideal of the Body: Who Could be There? 3.2 TV Talk as a Method 3.3 Emotion as an Effect Part 2: Working Class Women 4. Living in the Traditional Way 4.1 Misery of Everyday Life: TV, Gender and Emotion 4.2 Power of Everyday Life: Son as a Tactic 4.3 Reading Against Primetime Feminism 4.4 TV Realism and Identification 4.5 Reinvigorating Tradition 5. Coping and Adapting: Family Life in Transition 5.1 TV Rituals, Security and Intimacy 5.2 TV and Childcare: "I Try Not to Watch TV Because of the Child" 5.3 Fantasy of Dominance 5.4 A-ha! Emotion: Reading the Popular 6. Yearning for Change: The Younger Generation 6.1 Work, Marriage and Feminism 6.2 Representation of Women on Korean Television: "It’s Always Killing Smart Women" 6.3 Play in the Global Telecity: "TV is My Best Friend" 6.4 Representation of the West in the Korean Imagination 6.5 Yearning for Free Choice, Social Mobility and Change 6.6 Rejecting Western Sexuality Part 3: The Middle Class 7. Older Women in Control: Power and Domesticity 7.1 TV, Emotion and Shifting Power: "Now it’s Women’s Times!" 7.2 Middle-Class Leisure and Television 7.3 TV Reflexivity: Women’s Work and Childcare 7.4 Family, TV and Moral Discourse 8. Professional Young Mothers: The Care of the Self 8.1 Unavailability of Husband, TV and Childcare 8.2 Child Education and Professionalization of Motherhood 8.3 Escape into Romance: "I Will Be Always There For You" 9. Becoming an Individual: Life-Style and Life Choices 9.1 Employment and Uncertainty: Whose Individualization? 9.2 A Return to Pleasure: Entertainment and Hope 9.3 Talking Back to The West: But Who Will Listen? Part 4: Journeys of Hope 10. Conclusion 10.1 Reflexivity at Work 10.2 Class, Generation and Reflexivity 10.3 Tradition/Morality/Family/Nation (Women in their 50s) 10.4 Transition/Negotiation/Intimacy/Emotion (Women in their 30s) 10.5 Openness/Play/Imagination/Freedom (Women in their 20s) 10.6 The Tradition-/The Inner-/The Other-Directed Culture of Everyday Life. Appendix: List of Interviewees

'In this interesting book, Youna Kim investigates the impact of television on the everyday lives and identities of South Korean women.' - Political Studies Review