Song Living on Your Own

Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5014-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

An ethnography of young, single women struggling to live independently in South Korea.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Song, Jesook

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in the Context of the Global Youth Crisis

1. Journey to a Room of One’s Own

2. Unmarried Women’s Housing and Financial Insecurities

3. Between Flexible Labor and a Flexible Lifestyle

4. Affective Baggage and Self-Suspension

Notes
Glossary of Korean Words
Glossary of Romanized Korean Books and Films
List of Research Participants’ Pseudonyms
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jesook Song is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society and the editor of New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements.