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Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War

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Availability:In StockContributor:Suzy KimPublish date:2024-12-15Pages:348
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501778858ISBN-10:1501778854UPC:9781501778858Book Category:Social Science, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Women, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Asian Studies, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.78 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCP5G8K9CK

In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement. Asian women, especially communists, are often depicted as victims of a patriarchal state. Kim challenges this view through extensive archival research, revealing that North Korean women asserted themselves from the late 1940s to 1975, before the Korean War began and up to the UN's International Women's Year.

Kim centers on North Korea and the "East" to present a new genealogy of the global women's movement. Women of the Korean Democratic Women's Union (KDWU), part of the global left women's movement led by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), argued that family and domestic issues should be central to both national and international debates. They highlighted the connections between race, nationality, sex, and class in systems of exploitation. Their intersectional program proclaimed "no peace without justice," "the personal is the political," and "women's rights are human rights," long before Western activists adopted these ideas. Among Women across Worlds uncovers movements and ideas foundational to today's era.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501778858ISBN-10:1501778854UPC:9781501778858Book Category:Social Science, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Women, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Asian Studies, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.78 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCP5G8K9CK

Suzy Kim is Professor of Korean History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950.


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