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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables viii
5. Acknowledgments ix
6. Note on Romanization x
7. Introduction: Femininities and the Korean Wave 1
8. Part I: Characters We Love
9. 1. Is Femininity Hard? Naming Femininities in the Age of Soft Masculinity 13
10. 2. Tomboy in Love: Korean and US Views of Heterosexual Eroticism in the K-Drama First Shop of Coffee Prince 34
11. 3. Miss Kim: God of the Workplace 54
12. Part II: More than Girl Groups
13. 4. Ella Gross and Child Social Media Stars: Rising to Fame through K-Pop Idol Trainee Systems, Mixed-Raceness, and Tabloid Cycle Controversies 69
14. 5. Girl Groups in Uniform: Moranbong Band and the Staging of NK-Pop in and out of North Korea 95
15. 6. Ssen-Unni in K-Pop: The Making of “Strong Sisters” in South Korea 116
16. Part III: Fans and Fan-Producers
17. 7. Alpeseu (RPS) and Business Gay Performance in the Korean K-Pop World 135
18. 8. Females, Frontliners, Fringes: K-Pop’s Performers and Protesters from Southeast Asia 156
19. 9. Riding the Korean Wave in Iran: Cyberfeminism and Pop Culture among Young Iranian Women 176
20. 10. Into the New World: From the Objectification to the Empowerment of Girls’ Generation 201
21. Notes on the Contributors 229
22. Index 233