"The long-standing structure of motherhood of the Korean society"(Ha, Jeongok)
In this article, I categorized the long-standing structure of motherhood of the Korean society into five spheres; planning and negotiation of resources, making light of ‘m ...
"The long-standing structure of motherhood of the Korean society"(Ha, Jeongok)
In this article, I categorized the long-standing structure of motherhood of the Korean society into five spheres; planning and negotiation of resources, making light of ‘mom’s role,’ mother as a planner of family lives, constant learning of motherhood, and self-evaluation of mother’s role, which is encapsulated in feminization of reproductive labor.
"Combination of Economic Support, Caring and Relation Management for family: Motherhood of Korean women in the Industrialization Era"(Bae, Eun-Kyung))
I analyzed the oral life stories of three women in order to historicize Korean women's experiences related to 'the motherhood' since the era of industrialization. Through the analysis, we can trace the social change that the major position of the married woman has moved from a daughter-in-law, which was regarded most important in the pre-modern society, into a modern 'wife-mother'. We can also understand that the role of Korean mothers are not just centered on family caring but also responsibility for managing family relationship and for supporting financial matters, which has been combined in various ways.
"The Change of Korean Women's Mothering"(Lee, Jaein)
The study purposes to depict the transition of Korean women's mothering. The Women in 60s focused on "biological mothering"(feeding and clothing) and schooling. Highly educated women in 50s described their mothering as a kind of "intensive mothering"(strong attachment and intensive emotional labour). 40s' women talked on intensive mothering more generally. The 30s' women are departed to diverse courses. Some people showed more intensive mothering, and the others criticised preexistent mothering trend. Relating to the results, I argue that the ideational mothering in Korea reveals 'backlash of intensive mothering'.
"Korean women's lives and motherhood: own interpretation and meaning on motherhood"(Sun Hyoung Lee)
This paper is focused on Korean women's lives and interpretation on their own mothering. I investigated an alternative language of mothering norm, while I aimed at deconstrcuting the old norm of mothering. I found 1) Korean women told their motherhood as social experiences not only individual ones. 2) they regard children as opportunities to make understand next generation, and 3) they could understand human being more deeply after being mother. It means Korean women interpret their motherhood in the life-course not only as sex-role.
"The Maternity of Childless or Childfree Women : Focus on Women over the age of 50and 30"(Choi Eun Young)
My findings, 1. for women aged over 50, relatively overwhelming over 30, pregnancy and childbirth is a main mechanism to gain a women's identity, but, in changes if realistic conditions they may no longer be a sole way to attain a woman's identity. 2. the primary factor to make the life story of childless or childfree.
"The structure and change of fathering in Korea" (Chung, chinsung)
No significant difference between ascribed motherhood and fatherhood is found in this study. Brothers' play somewhat similar role with fathering, which seems to be based in patriarchic nature of Korean families.
Trends and Implications of Delayed and Non-Marriage in Korea(Kwon, Tae Hwan)
With this background in mind, attempts were made in this paper to construct refined measures, such as age-specific first marriage rates and total first marriage rates, for different time periods and for different cohorts first, to describe more clearly the picture of marriage trends. Then, the results are brought to various social and demographic lights to discuss their implications as a way to check indirectly the validity and usefulness of the method adopted in this study.