8. Avoiding T’ibu (Obvious Butchness): Invisibility as a Survival Strategy among Young Queer Women in South Korea

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Queer Korea: Toward a Field of Engagement 1
5. PART I UNRULY SUBJECTS UNDER COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL MODERNITY
6. 1. Ritual Specialists in Colonial Drag: Shamanic Interventions in 1920s Korea 55
7. 2. Telling Queer Time in a Straight Empire: Yi Sang’s “Wings” (1936) 90
8. 3. Problematizing Love: The Intimate Event and Same-Sex Love in Colonial Korea 117
9. 4. Femininity under the Wartime System and the Symptomacity of Female Same-Sex Love 146
10. 5. A Female-Dressed Man Sings a National Epic: The Film Male Kisaeng and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in 1960s South Korea 175
11. 6. Queer Lives as Cautionary Tales: Female Homoeroticism and the Heteropatriarchal Imagination of Authoritarian South Korea 205
12. PART II CITIZENS, CONSUMERS, AND ACTIVISTS IN POSTAUTHORITARIAN TIMES
13. 7. The Three Faces of South Korea’s Male Homosexuality: Pogal, Iban, and Neoliberal Gay 263
14. 8. Avoiding T’ibu (Obvious Butchness): Invisibility as a Survival Strategy among Young Queer Women in South Korea 295
15. 9. Mobile Numbers and Gender Transitions: The Resident Registration System, the Nation-State, and Trans/gender Identities 323
16. Contributors 343
17. Index 345