Masculinizing the Nation

Gender Ideologies in Traditional Korea and in the 1890s-1900s Korean Enlightenment Discourse

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ID3615079
AutoresVladimir Tikhonov, Владимир Тихонов (0000-0003-2288-4890, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume66
Fascículo4
Páginas1029-1065
Data de publicação2007-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911807001283
OpenAlexW2152030888
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas27

This paper deals with ideal masculine types in the gender discourse of Korea's modernizing nationalists during the late 1890s and early 1900s. It begins by outlining the main gender stereotypes of Korea's traditional neo-Confucian society, and it argues that old Korea's manhood norms were bifurcated along class lines. On one hand, fighting prowess was accepted as a part of the masculinity pattern in the premodern society of the commoners. On the other hand, the higher classes' visions of manhood emphasized self-control and adherence to moral and ritual norms. The paper shows how both premodern standards of masculinity provided a background for indigenizing the mid-nineteenth century European middle-class ideal of "nationalized" masculinity-disciplined, self-controlled, sublimating the sexual impulses and channeling them toward the "nobler national goals," and highly militarized-in early modern Korea

Aesthetics · Enlightenment · Ideal (ethics) · Ideology · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy