Sexuality and Public Politics
February 7, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies
Sexuality has recently emerged as a major issue in public politics in South Korea. This presentation by Hyun Mee Kim, professor of cultural anthropology at Yonsei University, will examine South Korea's #MeToo movement in the context of the failure of the 芒鈧搒tate feminism芒鈧 of the persistently conservative regime and the moral failure of the progressive wing over the years as seen in former Governor Ahn Hee-jung芒鈧劉s sexual violence case.
Prof. Kim's lecture, titled "Sexuality and Public Politics: Temporal Contingency of the #MeToo Movement in Contemporary South Korea," is the tenth in the Center for Korean Studies' annual Forum on Critical Issues in Korean Studies.
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Center for Korean Studies, Mānoa Campus
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