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SoSe 20: Gender/Sexuality in Contemporary East Asia

Hyun Gyung Kim

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This course invites students to the transnational understanding of gender and sexuality in contemporary East Asia, focusing on Japan, South Korea, and China. Like other regions, globalization and neoiberalization since post-Cold-War had a massive impact on East Asia. With this global transformation, we will explore how gender/sexuality system is being challenged, modified, and reorganized in East Asia. For example, how can we understand the main agendas of the feminist movement and gender/sexuality studies this region compared to so-called "Western Worlds"? Does it link to the specific modern formation of gender/sexuality in East Asia? What about the transnational flow of sexuality and bodily right issues such as #metoo, legalization of abortion, and sexual minority movement in East Asia? How can we analyze the pleasure of enjoying East Asian pop culture from a gender/sexuality perspective? These are a few examples that we will interrogate this class. Each class will consist of an introductory lecture, a student-led presentation and discussion of the assigned readings. Based on the reading materials required to read in advance, students are expected to be engaged in critical discussions along with provocative questions in each class in English. close