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Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth through the Twentieth Centuries
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Comments/Reviews
Description: This book introduces important contributions in the humanities by a select group of traditional and modern Korean women, from the 15th through the 20th centuries. The literary and artistic works of these women are considered Korean classics, and the featured artists and writers range from a queen, to a courtesan, to a Buddhist nun, to unkown women of Korea.
Although women's works were generally meant only to circulate among women, these creative expressions have caught the attention of literary and artistic connoisseurs. By bringing them to light, the book seeks to demonstrate how Korean women have tried to give their lives meaning over the ages through their very diverse, yet common artistic responses to the details and drama of everyday life in Confucian Korea. The stories of these women and their work give us glimpses of their personal views on culture, aesthetics, history, society, politics, morality, and more.
Selected Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction, Young-Key Kim-Renaud
2. The Naehun and the Politics of Gender in Fifteenth-Century Korea, John Duncan
3. Sin Saimdang: The Foremost Woman Painter of the Choson Dynasty, Yi Song-mi
4. Ho Nansorhon and "Shakespeare's Sister," Kichung Kim
5. Demythologizing Hwang Chini, Kevin O'Rourke
6. Private Memory and Public History: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong and Testimonial Literature, JaHyun Kim Haboush
7. Kyubang Kasa: Women's Writings from the Late Choson, Sonja Haussler
8. A Celebration of Life: Patchwork and Embroidered Pojagi by Unknown Korean Women, Kumja Paik Kim
9. Kim Iryop's Conflicting Worlds, Bonnie B. C. Oh
10. Dialectics of Life: Hahn Moo-Sook and Her Literary World, Yung-Hee Kim
Glossary
The Editor and Contributors
Index
Review(s): An informative and enlightening work and should be a required text in courses on East Asian sociocultural history. Journal of Asian Studies Vol.63 #3
...expands our knowlege about the creative contributions of Korean women over the past five centuries. ... an interesting collection that can also serve as a textbook for classes on gender issues or the social history of Korea. Acta Koreana, Vol.8, No.1
... Creative Women takes on historical feminist importance because the women speak for themselves, and tell unflinchingly how they felt about themselves and those around them. ... well written and fascinating. Korean Quarterly, Vol.8 No.2
...this volume will prove to be an excellent resource for students in Korean literature, history, and civilization classes. ... This work will open up many new topics and approaches and thus permit students to gain a much deeper understanding of how women lived in past times. In this aspect, I envison that reative Women of Korea will be one of the very few works on premodern Korea that enjoys substantial demand among undergraduate students. ... I highly recommend Creative Women of Korea and look forward to utilizing this work in my future classes. Korean Studies, Vol.28
    
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