Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and

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Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea

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

Living on Your Own is an ethnography of young, single women in South Korea who seek to live independently. Using extensive interviews, along with media analysis and archival research, Jesook Song traces the womenâ€™s difficulties in achieving residential autonomy. Song exposes the clash between the womenâ€™s burgeoning desire for independent lives and the ongoing incursion of traditional, conservative family ideology and marriage pressure into housing practices and financial institutions. She pays particular attention to the Korean rent system and the reliance on lump-sum cash even for basic subsistence, which promotes tight control of young adultsâ€™ lives by family and kinship networks. The young women whose voices feature prominently in this book are a prototype of global youth in crisis: caught between aspirations for the self-development and flexible lifestyle championed by globalizing media and communication technology and the reality of their position as flexible labor in a neoliberal economy.

Country	USA
Author	Jesook Song
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781438450124
ISBN	1438450125
Label	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	164
PublicationDate	2015-01-02
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Studio	State University of New York Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea

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