Instead, a post-nationalist perspective would recognize minjok to be a modern (and democratic) construct. To say that the minjok was constructed in the modern period means that the attempt to transform women, peasants, and slaves into ...

At first sight it may seem odd that the character-reader should in any case declare himself incapable of distinguishing sex in writing. […] The most prevalent reason for this probably lies in the so-called emancipation of women, who, on aping the masculine pursuits and propensities, really acquire the virile tone of character. In a similar way the dude of the day becomes androgynous; and the result in one case is a masculine soul in a woman's shape, and in the other a feminine soul in the degraded form of the so-called dude.

So will I growe, ſo liue, ſo die my Lord, / Ere I will yield my virgin Patent, vp / Vnto his Lordſhippe, whoſe vnwiſhed yoake / My ſoule conſents not to giue ſouerainty.

But there were others in the thirteenth century, quoted in the Summa Summarum of Sylvester Prieras, who said that a man might take electuaries, or ginger by way of stay-stomach, without impeding Communion.