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Article ID: CBB000930700

“Limiting Birth”: Birth Control in Colonial Korea (1910--1945) (2008)

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 2
Pages: 335--359
Publication date: 2008
Language: English

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia

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Public health Birth control; contraception; sterilization Gynecology Science and gender Feminist analysis Japan, colonies Reproductive medicine Eugenics Population Women and health 20th century, early Korea

This article examines birth control as practice and discourse in 1920s and 1930s Korea under Japanese colonial rule and explores links with family planning and reproductive practices in post-1945 South Korea. The control of women's reproduction held critical implications for meanings of domesticity, marriage, sexual relations, and new womanhood. While a woman-centered position did emerge regarding birth control, the parameters of the discourse, concerns of gynecology, and the material culture of birth control ultimately tied the bodies and health of women to their biological and social roles as mothers. Keywords Birth control - Eugenics - Population - Gynecology - Colonial Korea

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Article Clarke, Adele E. (2008) Introduction: Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (p. 303). unapi

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