It's our first official NSFW episode!!! Join us for a discussion of The Handmaiden, and learn about tentacle porn, Japanese imperialism, women in service in Korea, and more!

Sources:

Dream of the Fisherman's Wife:

Biography of Katsushika Hokusai: https://www.katsushikahokusai.org/biography.html 

Complete Works of Katsushika Hokusai: https://www.katsushikahokusai.org/ 

Paul Berry, "Rethinking 'Shunga': The Interpretation of Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period," Archives of Asian Art 54 (2004)

Yoko Kawaguchi, Butterfly's Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture. Yale University Press, 2010.

Cady Drell, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tentacle Porn," Glamour. Available at https://www.glamour.com/story/everything-to-know-about-tentacle-porn 

Sofia Barrett-Ibarria, "The Women Making Feminist Tentacle Porn," Vice. Available at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne7nax/the-women-making-feminist-tentacle-porn

Women's Rights in Colonial Korea:
Sharon Nolte, "Women's Rights and Society's Needs: Japan's 1931 Suffrage Bill," Comparative Studies in Society and History 28, 4 (1986)

Marie Seong-Hak Kim, "Customary Law and Colonial Jurisprudence in Korea," The American Journal of Comparative Law 57, 1 (2009)

EP Thompson, Customs in Common, The New Press, 1993.
Marie Seong-Hak Kim, "Law and Custom Under the Choson Dynasty and Colonial Korea: A Comparative Perspective," Journal of Asian Studies 66, 4 (2007)

Sungyn Lim, Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea. University of California Press, 2018.

Japanese Imperialism:

Louise Young, "Introduction: Japan's New International History," The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 4, October 2014, Pages 1117–1128, https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1093/ahr/119.4.1117 

KIM, JINWUNG. "THE PERIOD OF JAPANESE COLONIAL RULE: (1910–1945)." In A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict, 321-66. Indiana University Press, 2012. Accessed July 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gh5vd.12.

Kazuko Suzuki, "The State and Racialization: The Case of Koreans in Japan," https://ccis.ucsd.edu/_files/wp69.pdf Iyenaga, Toyokichi.

"Japan's Annexation of Korea." The Journal of Race Development 3, no. 2 (1912): 201-23. Accessed July 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/29737953.

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/kpct/kp_koreaimperialism.htm

https://www.history.com/news/japan-colonization-korea

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/28/japan.worlddispatch

https://www.ft.com/content/13a3ff9a-f3ed-11e9-a79c-bc9acae3b654 

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/15/751354135/japans-emperor-and-prime-minister-mark-wwii-surrender-in-contrasting-annual-ritu  

Kang, Hildi. Under the Black Umbrella : Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 /. Ithaca, N.Y. :: Cornell University Press.

Film Background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingersmith_(novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaiden

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_handmaiden

https://youtu.be/pUQ5H_bF1Ck

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/08/sarah-waters-the-handmaiden-turns-pornography-into-a-spectacle-but-its-true-to-my-novel-

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/movies/the-handmaiden-review.html

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190304-why-the-grand-guignol-was-so-shocking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Award

Adoption and Service in Korea:

Kim, Jung‐Woo, and Terry Henderson. "History of the care of displaced children in Korea." Asian Social Work and Policy Review 2, no. 1 (2008): 13-29.

Nicole Cohen, Children of Empire (2006)
Stanley, Amy. "Maidservants’ Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600–1900." The American Historical Review 121, no. 2 (2016): 437-460.

KWEON, Sug-In. "Japanese Female Settlers in Colonial Korea: Between the 'Benefits' and 'Constraints' of Colonial Society." Social Science Japan Journal 17, no. 2 (2014): 169-88. Accessed July 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/43920442.

KIM, JANICE C. H. "Modernization and the Rise of Women’s Wage Work." In To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, 50-74. STANFORD, CALIFORNIA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Accessed July 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvr0qrqh.9 

Jun Yoo, Theodore. "Introduction." In The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945, 1-14. University of California Press, 2008. Accessed July 29, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnbrt.5

CHOI, Hyaeweol. "Translated Modernity and Gender Politics in Colonial Korea." In Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, edited by Wong Lawrence Wang-chi, 31-70. Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2017. Accessed July 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2n7p6w.7

Choi, Hyaeweol. New Women in Colonial Korea a Sourcebook. ASAA Women in Asia Series. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Jun Yoo, Theodore. "The Colonized Body: Korean Women’s Sexuality and Health." In The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945, 161-92. University of California Press, 2008. Accessed July 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnbrt.10.

Yayori, Matsui, and Lora Sharnoff. "Sexual Slavery in Korea." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 2, no. 1 (1977): 22-30. Accessed July 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/3346104

" Janice C. H. Kim, ""The Pacific War and Working Women in Late Colonial Korea,"" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33, no. 1 (Autumn 2007): 81-103.
https://doi.org/10.1086/518392"

NOTE: I may have made it sound like Samuel Pepys had a vast collection of pornography--rather, we know that he read pornography because he wrote about it in his diary (https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1668/02/09/ )--a work called L'Escholle des Filles, where two female cousins discuss sex ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99%C3%89cole_des_filles ). Pepys later burned the book after reading it. (https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1668/02/09/ )