AP/KOR 4200
Contested Terrain: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Korean Culture
Undated
Topics
- Gender and sexuality in contemporary Korea
- Marriage and family
- Parenthood
- Labour and consumption
- Media
- Femininity and masculinity
- Social and cultural change
Readings
- No required textbook. Sample reading: Holliday and Elfving-Hwang (2012), “Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea,” Body & Society 18(2), 58–81.
- Sample reading: Oh (2018), “Who Deserves to Work? How Women Develop Expectations of Child Care Support in Korea,” Gender & Society 32(4), 493–515.
- Sample reading: Rhee (2019), “Gender Politics in Food Escape: Korean Masculinity in TV Cooking Shows in South Korea,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 47(1), 56–64.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public abbreviated course outline ↗Undated
- Short public planning outline; material and assessments may change in the final syllabus. The document does not state an academic year; archive upload date is 2026-05-25.