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- Title
HUSBAND MURDER AS THE "SICKNESS" OF KOREA.
- Authors
Jin-kyung Park
- Abstract
So far, the feminist history of colonialism has been examined mainly in Western imperial settings characterized by the familiar racial duality of white and nonwhite. In this article, I draw attention to the East Asian imperial context, marked by racial proximity and ambiguity between ruler and ruled. I do so by focusing on Japanese physician Takeki Kudō's study of husband murderers in colonial Korea (1910-1945). A critical analysis of Kudō's meticulous research framework reveals that he had intended to frame husband murder as a peculiar pathology of the Korean race-a racial disease. This racialized framing of Korean female criminality betrays the anxiety and insecurity of Japanese imperial power at pains to construct and police racial boundaries between ruler and ruled. This, in turn, suggests that the construction of racial division was not exclusively the work of Western colonialism but that of colonialism as a world-wide phenomenon.
- Subjects
KOREA; WOMEN murderers; SPOUSES; WOMEN prisoners; KUDO, Takeki; JAPANESE occupation of Korea, 1910-1945; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of Women's History, 2013, Vol 25, Issue 3, p116
- ISSN
1042-7961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jowh.2013.0026