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Among Women across Worlds

Kim, Suzy

2023

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Subject: 20th century / ASIAN STUDIES / COLD WAR HISTORY / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism / communist women / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Ethnic studies / Far-left political ideologies and movements / Feminism / Feminism -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century / Feminist & Women's Studies / HISTORY / HISTORY / Women / History and Archaeology / History: specific events and topics / International cooperation / international women’s movement / Korea (North) / Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 20th century / Korean Democratic Women’s Union / North Korea and the cold war / North Korean women / Pak Chŏng-ae / Political activity / Political Ideologies / Political ideologies and movements / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism / Politics and government / Social and cultural history / Social conditions / Social groups, communities and identities / Social Science / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies / Society and culture: general / Society and Social Sciences / Women / Women -- Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- 20th century / Women -- Political activity -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century / Women and communism / Women and communism -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century / Women communists / Women communists -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century / Women's rights / Women's rights -- International cooperation -- History -- 20th century / Women's rights -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century
• ISBN: 1501778854, 9781501778858, 1501767305, 9781501767302, 9781501767326, 1501767313, 9781501767319, 1501767321