Book Review: The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico by Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya

Abstract

cha, at 7:1, points to their overwhelming representation as heads of families (changnam) in the DPRK. If the size of Mr. Na’s uncle’s family in the north was any measure, one could estimate that the descendants of South Koreans in the north could equal or even outnumber, per capita, the offspring of North Koreans in the south. Whether this potential—one of many Kim unveils in her thought-provoking, award-winning book—is comforting or distressing to members of a society marked by some of the lowest birthrates in the world today, one hopes that recognizing the interrelatedness of northerners and southerners will allow for a reconfiguration of Korean kinship less fettered by the exclusive rights of patrilineage.