title: Beyond pain and protection: politics of identity and iban girls in Korea.
abstract: This study analyzes the complexities in the exploration of iban girls' identities and the various ways how girls appropriate varied sources such as popular culture to examine the heterogeneousness of identity explorations and rethink the politics of identities. Against the tendency in current discourse on homosexual youth in Korea, protection discourse and pain discourse, the notion of identity itself will be critically examined and the girls' agency in destabilizing heteronormativity will be discussed. This study also deals with the appropriation of popular culture by the girls, suggesting that cultural critiques should reveal complex dynamics in concrete experiences. doi:10.1300/J155v10n03_04.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Culture and Gender Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, iamjieun@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ji-eun
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D011057:Politics; D012933:Social Identification