Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Sociology

Hyun Sook Kim:
Research Interests and Activities

 Yoon Seok Nam, 1993
Yoon Seok Nam, 1993

Professor Kim's research focuses on transnational feminist cultural studies; gender, sexuality, and nationalism; history and memory of war in Korea and Vietnam; models of political reconciliation and transitional justice; and postcoloniality and feminisms. She has also studied the military sexual slavery issue ("comfort women"), militarism and prostitution, and domestic violence in Asian immigrant communities.

Selected Publications:

"'Yang-Gong-Ju' as an Allegory of the Nation: Images of Working-Class Women in Popular and Radical Texts." Dangerous Women: Korean Women and Nationalism, (with Chung-moo Choi and Elaine Kim, eds.) Routledge, 1998.

"The Construction of Asian-Americans as a Social Problem," in Sociological Imagination, vol. 34, no. 2-3, 1997.

"History/Memory: The Comfort Women Controversy." Positions: east asia cultures critique .vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 1997

"A Nation Liberated, A Nation Divided: Re-interpretation of the Taegu Uprising of October1946." The Journal of Modern Korean Studies , Spring 1996.

"Theorizing Marginality: Violence against Korean Women." Privileging Sites: Positions in AsianAmerican Studies. Marilyn Alquizola, Gary Okihiro, et. al. (eds), Washington State University Press, 1995.

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