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KIM Hyun Mee

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The current global market economy which places priority further on growth of capital has endowed the state with the full rights to restructure the society as a proxy of global finance capitalists creates a new form of ¡§development dictatorship¡¨ in Korea. Korea¡¦s new form of development dictatorship has revealed itself in a contradictory way by using the catchy-up words, globalization and restructuring indiscriminately, and keeping the conventional gendered division of labor untouched. This question makes me review the historicized reading of the material conditions and discursive practices of Korea¡¦s nation-building in the period of modernization and since the democratization to find out women workers¡¦ structural relationships to the Korean political economy, labor, and international capital while offering the possible locations of resistances and containment. By looking at gender image which accounts for a large and important part of the politics of representation, I critically examine the way in which the meaning of women¡¦s labor has been constructed in the process of modernization since the 1960s and democratization of recent years. By analyzing the historical process in which Korea¡¦s economic ¡¥miracle¡¦ and ¡¥depression,¡¦ has devolved on a ¡¥gender¡¦ politics, this paper will show that culture and economic power have an inseparable relationship.

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Author¡¦s biography

KIM Hyun Mee teaches in the Gender and Cultural Studies Program, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, Seoul.

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