Shamans and Superstitious Mothers
Modern Healthcare Discourse in 1920s-30s Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12499015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Merose Hwang (0000-0003-4533-7689, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-61 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/12259276.2012.11666121 |
| OpenAlex | W2146669726 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper focuses on how the Korean print media, from 1920 to 1939, steered women away from mudang (female shamans) based informal healthcare networks towards government regulated medical practices. During this period of Japanese colonialism, Korean journals and newspapers proliferated, creating myriad women's columns and journals. As “women's issues’ regularly appeared in the media, so did topics on “superstition,” in order to change public views and values regarding marriage, childbirth, medicine, and child rearing, and funneling unregulated practices towards pharmaceuticals, licensed specialists, and western hospitals. Newspapers and journals created pedagogical designs for ethical housekeeping, encouraging the support of capitalist development by treating domestic labor as a mission in social progress. The media expressed a legal language of regulating and criminalizing mudang related products and services; it attempted to influence women's household spending and labor and manifested a gendered colonial subjectivity as an expression of everyday life under capitalist modernity
Childbirth · Colonialism · Economic growth · Government (linguistics · Media studies · Modernity · Newspaper · Political science · Pregnancy · Sociology · Subjectivity · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Getting Married in KoreaOf Gender, Morality, and Modernity
Ethnic Nationalism in Korea
The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea
The Glorification of ‘Scientific Motherhood’ as an Ideological Construct in Modern Korea
The ‘New Woman’ and the Politics of Love, Marriage and Divorce in Colonial Korea
The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |