Form a mini-thesis that pertains to one of the focused reading questions for that week. Support your mini-thesis using at least two direct or indirect quotations from that week’s assigned readings (introduced and cited using Chicago Manual of Style footnote format) and discuss your evidence to address your argument. The homework will enforce that week’s materials and help students construct arguments using evidence, as this is how you will build each paragraph of your paper. Chose one topic that you are interested in Were all court ladies lowborn? How did kisaeng represent intersections of gender and class? (RESOURCE) + Lee Bae-yong, Women in Korean History, trans. Lee Kyong-hee (Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press, 2008), 69-81. + JaHyun Kim Haboush, “The Vanished Women of Korea: The Anonymity of Texts and the Historicity of Subjects,” in Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History, ed. Anne Walthall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 280-298. + Chang Sa-hun, “Women Entertainers of the Yi Dynasty,” in Women of the Yi Dynasty, Studies on Korean Women Series I, ed. Research Center for Asian Women, Sookmyung Women’s University (Seoul’ Research Center for Asian Women, Sookmyung Women’s University, 1986), 251-265. – Kevin O’Rourke, “Demythologizing Hwang Chini: in Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries, ed. Young-Key Kim-Renaud (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004), 96-121. Or What contradictions are seen in lowbom women’s status? Could lowborn women embody Confucian virtues? (RESOURCE) – Milan Hejtmanek, “Devalued Bodies, Revalued Status and Remarriage in Late Choson: in Women and Confucianism in Chos6n Korea: New Perspectives, ed. Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid (Albany: State University
of New York Press, 2012), 137-149. 6 Go to Settin_qs to activate WI ncioh..:s. – Youngmin Kim, “Portrait of Two Women: in Women and Confucianism in Chosen Korea: New UarC‘nr‘rli’lr’c. “1 Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012), 11-2E Online – contact suppo
