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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press
[2003]
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| Col·lecció: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqt7p |
Taula de continguts:
- 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.