Youngju Lee
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Youngju Lee is a historian of technology in Modern Korea. She works as a doctoral research fellow for the project “A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000” at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. In her current Ph.D. project, she deals with technologies associated with women’s bodily experiences including menstrual pads, tampons, contraceptives, and douches for cleansing the vagina with a focus on women as users thereof in the second half of the twentieth century in South Korea. Inviting such devices and things that have been hardly considered as technology, the project aims at revealing the ways that women actively engaged with and shaped technology in the socio-cultural and economic matrices in which the women were situated. She graduated from the Interdisciplinary Program in History and Philosophy of Science of the Seoul National University in South Korea with her master's thesis titled “The Introduction of Disposable Menstrual Products and the Change of Perception about the Menstrual body in South Korea, in the 1960-1980s.” Before becoming a researcher, she worked for many years as a book editor and a journalist for scientific magazines after she earned her bachelor's degree in atmospheric science from the Seoul National University.


Curriculum Vitae

Since 2019: Doctoral research fellow for the project “A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000” at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (funded by the European Research Council)

2015-2018: M.S. in History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University, South Korea.

2002-2008: B.S. in Atmospheric Science, Seoul National University, South Korea.


Presentations

  • Lee, Youngju. 2021. “Girls’ Menstrual Knowledge, Technology, Bodies and the Formation of Citizenship in South Korea in the 1970s„, Association for Korean Studies in Europe(AKSE) 30th Conference, La Rochelle, France.
  • Lee, Youngju. 2021. “How to Capture Women in the History of Technology: Looking at Everyday Technology and Women as Users“, the 133rd Colloquium held by Ewha Institute for the Humanities in South Korea, online.
  • Lee, Youngju. 2020. „Bodily Technologies and Menstrual Management in South Korea, 1970–1980s“, Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Virtual Forum 2020. (was to be held in New Orleans, The United States)
  • Lee, Youngju . 2020. “New Forms of Nurture for a New Nation: Conflicts over Contraceptives in South Korea, 1970-1990”, International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) 2020 Digital. (was to be held Eindhoven, Netherlands)
  • Lee, Youngju. 2019. “Changes in Menstrual Technologies and the New Perception of the Menstrual Body in South Korea, 1960s-1980s” In The International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA), Jeonju, South Korea.
  • Lee, Youngju. 2018. “The Menstrual Products and the Menstrual Bodies from the mid-1960s to 1980s”, The 4th Korean Association of Science and Technology Studies Conference, Seungnam, South Korea.
  • Lee, Youngju. 2016. “The Public Understanding of Science: Analysis of Book Reviews of the Scientific Concert of Jaeseung Jeong”, The 6th graduate student workshop in Seoul National University, Jeonbok University, and KAIST. Seoul, South Korea.


Publications