HISA06H3 Chapter : THE COLONIZED BODY – KOREAN WOMEN’S SEXUALITY AND HEALTH.docx
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The colonized body korean women"s sexuality and health. 2 women committed suicide in front of a train : hong og-im (21) and kim. After the great depression of 1929 and after japan"s active involvement in. Korean and social reformed believed that what was needed as sexual education for the public, social reform of marriage, and new reproductive knowledge and technologies to replace primitive practices. Koreans sought to assert control over the pace and nature of reforms, accommodating yet also resisting japanese attempts to colonize the korean national body. 1920"s witnessed an unprecedented explosion of discourse on sex. Depicted an ignorant mother confronted by a precocious child who was not ashamed to pose questions about sexuality. ***showed that a new generation of koreans was moving beyond society"s repression of sexuality to a healthy curiosity about the subject. Morally outraged koreans went on a campaign to eliminate the so-called ppalgan ch"aek (red books) which symbolized japanese attempts to enslave.