Getting Married in Korea : Of Gender, Morality, & Modernity

Preface ix Why Study Weddings? A Confessional Introduction 1(26) PART I CEREMONY A Wedding in Righteous Town 27(25) A Rite of Modernization and Its Postmodern Discontents 52(33) PART II COURTSHIP Transformations: The Construction of Courtship in Twentieth-Century Korea 85(35) Requesting Marriage 120(35) PART III EXCHANGE Ceremonious Goods 155(36) Betrothal Gifts and ``Bothersome Custom'' 191(30) Conclusion 221(10) Bibliography 231(18) Index 249