The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right: Hegemonic Masculinity

by Nami Kim

Book Overview

This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the Korean Protestant Right's gendered politics. Specifically, the volume explores the Protestant Right's responses and reactions to the presumed weakening of hegemonic masculinity in Korea's post-hypermasculine developmentalism context. Nami Kim examines three phenomena: Father School (an evangelical men's manhood and fatherhood restoration movement), the anti-LGBT movement, and Islamophobia/anti-Muslim...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319820079
• ISBN13: 9783319820071
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"