Women We Love

<p><i>Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave</i> is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars characters and fans who shape and lead this crucial cultural movement. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and the key female actors of this global phenomenon. Using women as an inclusive term extending to all those who self-define as women this volume examines the role of women in K-pop and K-drama industries and fandom spaces encompassing crucial intersectional topics such as queering of gender dissemination of media and fan culture. </p><p>In addition to the communities engaged with visual culture of the Korean Wave the audience for <i>Women We Love</i> will reflect the contributors to this text. They are K-pop and K-drama fans queer international; they are also academics of Asian histories sociology gender and sexuality art history and visual culture. The chapters are playful intersectional and will be adapted well into syllabi for media studies gender studies visual culture studies sociology and contemporary global history.</p>