“Limiting Birth”: Birth Control in Colonial Korea (1910–1945)

Kim, Sonja

doi:10.1215/s12280-008-9064-3

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“…The Japanese colonial period of the 1920s introduced 'The population problem,' as well as contraceptive devices, eugenics and neo-Malthusian theories to Korean society. As Sonja Kim (2008) illustrates through a close examination of newspapers, women's magazines, and popular magazines, the discourse of 'the population problem' and the first advertisements for contraceptive and abortive methods appeared in major newspapers in 1921. The Japanese colonial government pushed pronatalist policy in both Japan and Korea to secure and increase human resources for the expansion of the Empire of Japan into China and other parts of Asia.…”

Section: The 'Population Problem:' Controlling Births In Koreamentioning

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A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: Abortion Death Rituals in South Korea

2017

Religion and Gender

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This essay explores contemporary ChonDoJe, Buddhist abortion death rituals in South Korea. I argue that both the fetus and the participants of the rituals can be conceptualized as biopolitical-spiritual subjects. This research uses participant observation, analysis of ritual texts, and a literature review of population control policies to situate the Buddhist abortion death rituals in the context of the colonial and post-colonial ‘modern’ reproductive regime in South Korea. The rites’ participants have contradictory and multifaceted identities in the transnational biopolitical reproductive regimes as they are constructed as both the targets of population control policies as well as the ‘sinners’ of abortion. I argue that the collective reenactments of past abortions in the rituals have unintentionally conjured those ‘erased’ due to robust population control.

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Section: The 'Population Problem:' Controlling Births In Koreamentioning

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A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: Abortion Death Rituals in South Korea

2017

Religion and Gender

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“…Undoubtedly, ads on potency-enhancing drugs were not in line with these currents of contemporary sexology, but with the ideologies of empire and the colonial state that pivoted on facilitating pronatalism and fertility (Kim, 2008; Ugaki, 1936). The ads on performance-enhancing drugs and devices manufactured images of men which explicitly delineated male sexual prowess as an indispensable element of “ideal manhood” and male sexual impotence as the underlying cause of all the misfortunes of life.…”

Section: Representing Empire’s “Dis-ease” Manufacturing Empire’s “Idmentioning

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“…One should be reminded that these advertisements were circulated in the Korean Peninsula at a time when imperial Japan was engaged in a full-fledged war against China and sought to increase the colonial population, with the aim of mobilizing Koreans as crucial human resources of the empire—soldiers, laborers, and emigrants to Manchuria and elsewhere in the 1930s and early 1940s (Moritani, 1942). Both in the empire’s home and the overseas colony, under the pronatal colonial state, abortion was legally banned, and the dissemination of knowledge on contraception was prohibited (Kim, 2008). While the Government-General of Korea’s monthly publications and other pro-state journals such as Chōsen (Korea) and Chōsen shakai jigyō (Journal of Korean Social Work) published heavily on ways to increase the size of the colonial population, the civilian champions of imperial ideologies—in this case, pharmaceutical companies—were able to put advertisements for their commercial products dedicated to the promotion of sexual reproduction in Maeil sinbo , the Government-General of Korea’s official newspaper.…”

Section: Representing Empire’s “Dis-ease” Manufacturing Empire’s “Idmentioning

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Managing “dis-ease”: Print media, medical images, and patent medicine advertisements in colonial Korea

Park

2017

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Over the past several decades, cultural studies scholars have shown a keen interest in the symbiosis between mass media and medicine, paying substantial attention to the capacity of media to construct meanings and images of health and disease and their material effects. In this article, I attempt to extend the insights of this scholarship into the historical context of colonial Korea under the non-western imperial power of Japan in the early 20th century. I critically analyze medical images and health discourses in print media to interrogate the ways in which these images and texts were interwoven in the production of novel ideas, metaphors, and notions of health, illness, and the body in the colonial modernity of Korea under Japanese rule (1910–45). Medical illustrations, along with texts in the vernacular newspapers and their patent medicine advertisements, powerfully forged visions of “ideal” male and female bodies at the intersection of Japanese colonialism, Korean nationalism, and modernity.

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“…Mass insertions of the device started in the 1960s in Taiwan and South Korea Takeshita 5 with the support and urging from the Population Council. Fertility rates declined exponentially as a result of strong government initiatives, making the two countries showcase examples of successful IUD distribution for the Council (Kim 2008). The organization also helped India orchestrate a Lippes Loop campaign.…”

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Biopolitique du stérilet

Takeshita¹

2015

Travail, Genre Et Sociétés

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Takeshita 1Women's desires regarding contraception and childbearing vary widely depending on social norms, cultural beliefs, and personal circumstances such as economic status, current family composition, and individual health condition. The ability of poor women in the global South to make their own reproductive decisions is generally very limited, due in part to the lack of access to contraceptive options and adequate health care, but more importantly owing to the intersecting oppression they endure as a lower-class female in a patriarchal society. Drawing on ethnographic studies of IUD (intrauterine device) users in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Nigeria, this article examines the variety of ways in which women have negotiated reproductive agency, sometimes with the help of, and at other times by refusing, the contraceptive device. 1 It demonstrates how women have mitigated antinatal government policies, eluded husband's demands, and bargained with healthcare providers in order to protect their physical health and regulate reproduction in ways that suit them. While the IUD has at times had a negative reputation owing to coercive and non-consented insertions in marginalized women and health problems experienced by its users, the examples in this article show that the device can also become an ally of a woman's quest for reproductive selfdetermination. The long-acting, provider-controlled, and easily-reversible features of the IUD as well as its inconspicuousness have worked in favor of various women's reproductive strategies.Overall this article illustrates how the IUD functions as a politically versatile device in women's struggles to achieve personal reproductive goals. 1 The following seven ethnographic studies conducted during the 1980s and 1990s provided the qualitative data for my analysis of IUD users' reproductive strategies: 1) Chinese villagers' response to the one-child policy in the Shaanxi province (Greenhalgh 1994); 2) reproductive behaviors and beliefs of women in an Etiki Yoruba village in southwestern Nigeria (Renne 1997); 3) women's subversive strategies against male dominance in Tajikistan (Harris 2000); 4) interviews with midwives who monitor local women's reproductive activity and health in Uzbekistan (Krengel and Greifeld 2000); 5) attitudes toward contraception in two villages in Bangladesh (Stark 2000); 6) rural Vietnamese women's relationship with health, family planning, and daily challenges (Gammeltoft 1999); and 7) Balinese women's beliefs around reproduction in Indonesia (Jennaway 1996). Each of them offered unique and yet comparable cultural and political contexts within which women negotiated reproduction by using or rejecting the IUD.

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“Limiting Birth”: Birth Control in Colonial Korea (1910–1945)

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: Abortion Death Rituals in South Korea

A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: Abortion Death Rituals in South Korea

Managing “dis-ease”: Print media, medical images, and patent medicine advertisements in colonial Korea

Biopolitique du stérilet

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