Corporeal Colonialism: Medicine, Reproduction, and Race in Colonial Korea

This dissertation makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literature in both cultural and social studies of science in Korea and the global history of colonialism, science, and gender. Foremost, my work demonstrates the colonial origin of Western medical intervention in the physical and sexual well being of Korean women and maps out the scientific and medical protocols for the diagnosis, classification, and treatment of women's reproductive diseases. In doing so, my study establishes rich new ground for further research on the genealogy and current manifestation of scientized, medicalized women's identities in Korea and East Asia. Moreover, my finding that modern medical science constituted a globalized imperial male enterprise could stimulate conversations and collective research among feminist scholars studying Western and Japanese empires.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Park, Jin-Kyung

Contributors dc:contributor

• Treichler, Paula A.

• Economics, History

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3337881

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86599