From Subservience to Autonomy: Kim Wŏnju's "Awakening"
Kim Wŏnju ( 1896-1971 ), better known by her pen name, Iryŏp (One Leaf), was one of the most outspoken and controversial feminist writers of modern Korea. This study presents a brief biography of Kim up to the time she became a Buddhist nun in the early 1930s, situating her life in the ideological, literary, cultural, and even political settings of her time. It then critically analyzes the structure, narrative strategies, and ideological implications of Kim's short story "Chagak" (Awakening, 1926), attempting to ascertain the story's place in the context of the time and in the author's development as a feminist writer.
The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History
In twelve essays addressing both broad feminist issues and specific historical subjects, Lerner calls for the creation of a truly universal history equally concerned with men, women, and the demise of patriarchy.
Korean-Japanese Politics behind the Kabo-Ŭlmi Reform Movement, 1894 to 1896
Abbreviations in footnotes: H:HDP Yi Son-gun, Han'guksa: hyondae-p'yon (Seoul: Uryu munhwasa, 1963; HR: CKS Ito Hirobumi, comp., Hisho misan: Chösen köshö shiryO, 3 vols. (Tokyo: Hisho ruisan kankökai, 1936; JWM Japan Weekly Mail, Yokohama, 2 Jan. 1886-12 Feb., 1916; KHOM:I Asea munje yon'guso, Korea University, comp., Ku-Han'guk oegyo munsd: Il-an, 7 vols. (Seoul: Asea munje yon'guso, Korea University, 1965-70); KKR Mutsu Munemitsu, Kenkenroku (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1967); KS Kojong sillok (Seoul: T'amgudang, 1970; KSS Kuksa p'yonch'an wiwohhoe, ed., Kojong sidaesa, 6 vols. (Seoul: Kuksa p'yonch'an wiwohhoe, 1967-72); MZK Sugimura Fukashi, Meiji nijüshichi-hachi-nen zai-Kan kushinroku (Tokyo: Sugimura Yötarö, 1932); NGB Gaimusho chcsabu, comp., Nihon gaikO bunsho (Tokyo: Nihon kokusai rengó kyôkai, 1936-); NGSS Kim Chong-myong [Kin Shömei] , comp., Nikkan gaiko shiryo shüsei, 5 vols. (Tokyo: Gannandô, 1962-); TKR Kuksa p'yonch'an wiwohhoe, comp., Tonghaknan kirok, 2 vols. (Seoul: Kuksa p'yonch'an wiwohhoe, 1959); YK "Yi Chun-yong kongch'o," reprinted in Asea yon'gu 4, no. 2 (Dec. 1961): 243-88.