‘You Must Avenge on My Behalf’: Widow Chastity and Honour in Nineteenth‐Century Korea

Kim, Jungwon

doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12055

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“…Kevin Breault and Karen Barkey argue that suicide rates are higher among those with lower levels of religious, family, and political integration. 18 Timothy Kang contends for the presence of egoism in Korea specifically, arguing that the rise of Western individualism and culture has resulted in generations moving away from traditional, collective values in society. 19 Durkheim's other proposed extreme of integration, altruistic suicides, constitutes high integration into society to the point at which one sacrifices themselves for the greater good.…”

Section: Durkheim' Suicide Theorymentioning

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Expected Sacrifices and Inescapable Oppressions: A Durkheimian Lens in Analyzing Historical Cases of Suicide in Korea

Anderson¹

2023

Int J Korean Hist

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Suicide in Korea has a long history dating back to Japanese occupied Chosŏn/Korea (1910-1945) and beyond. Émile Durkheim’s influential social study of suicide has provided utility in classifying suicides across various contexts, and I contend here that his suicide typology can be used to understand suicides during this time period in Korea. Through analyzing secondary sources, this historical analysis will provide a basic foundation of how suicide has been understood and practiced during this selected time period in Korean history, with specific focus on how the uprooting of traditional society and culture under colonialism has shown a multiplicity of Durkheim’s suicide types. For this very reason, this paper further discusses the theoretical implications in arguing the fluidity of Durkheim’s suicide types.

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Section: Durkheim' Suicide Theorymentioning

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Expected Sacrifices and Inescapable Oppressions: A Durkheimian Lens in Analyzing Historical Cases of Suicide in Korea

Anderson¹

2023

Int J Korean Hist

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“…Their lives show a much more complex picture according to their socioeconomic situations, and they were less bound by official representation of gender norms (Chȏng 2001;Jisoo M. Kim 2010b;Jungwon Kim 2007;Kim Kyȏng-suk 2005;Kim Young-min and Pettid 2011). These recent studies are significant in that they use a variety of 10 In the early years of the Chosȏn, daughters shared ritual duties and continued to receive equal shares of inheritance with sons.…”

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“…I was inspired by Hirsch's book when formulating ideas related to women's legal activities in the Chosȏn. 9 In her examination of criminal records and female suicide, Jungwon Kim (2007Kim ( , 2014 claims that women negotiated their positions based on their socioeconomic status in their legal testimonies. My examination of petition sources corroborates this claim in that the kind of grievances women addressed differed based on their socioeconomic status.…”

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Women's Legal Voice: Language, Power, and Gender Performativity in Late Chosŏn Korea

Kim¹

2015

J of Asian Stud

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Based on a neo-Confucian vision that the monarch's mandate relied on listening to his people's grievances, the Chosȏ n state (1392-1910) empowered subjects regardless of gender or status to address grievances to the sovereign that had not been rectified in lower courts. Contrary to the preconceived notion that women of the Chosȏ n were silent subjects outside their domestic boundary, their petitioning activity shows that women, irrespective of their status, had the same legal capacity as their male counterparts to appeal grievances at local and capital levels. This article focuses on women's petitions and their linguistic practices to show how their petitioning activity complicated the gender dynamics of Confucian society. While the gender hierarchy was reinforced through women's narrative strategy as they appropriated the discourse of domesticity, I posit that women as legal agents were regendering legal identity by constructing a sense of personhood via their petitioning practice. Through articulating their gendered narratives, women struggled to defend not only themselves and their own sense of morality but also their entire family.

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Confucian Complexities

Nyitray¹

2020

A Companion to Global Gender History

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‘You Must Avenge on My Behalf’: Widow Chastity and Honour in Nineteenth‐Century Korea

Cited by 18 publications

References 2 publications

Expected Sacrifices and Inescapable Oppressions: A Durkheimian Lens in Analyzing Historical Cases of Suicide in Korea

Expected Sacrifices and Inescapable Oppressions: A Durkheimian Lens in Analyzing Historical Cases of Suicide in Korea

Women's Legal Voice: Language, Power, and Gender Performativity in Late Chosŏn Korea

Confucian Complexities

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