What role do Neo-Confucian notions of the “life force” (ki) play in buttressing modern Korean patriarchy? (Warm Nest by Eugenia Loli; CC BY-NC 2.0) Many years ago,Taeyeon Kim’s “Neo-Confucian Body Techniques: Women’s Bodies in Korea’s Consumer Society” was my Communist Manifesto of Korean gender relations. It was short, to the point, and instantly melded everything I knew about the subject into a […]![]()
