ISBN:
9781501767302
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 330 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kim, Suzy, 1972 - Among women across worlds
DDC:
305.42095193/0904
Keywords:
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Feminism History 20th century
;
Women's rights History 20th century
;
Women and communism History 20th century
;
Women communists History 20th century
;
Women Political activity 20th century
;
History
;
Women's rights International cooperation 20th century
;
History
;
Ethnic Studies
;
Ethnic studies
;
Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen
;
Gender studies: women
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HIS058000
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
;
Political ideologies
;
Politische Ideologien
;
Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen der extremen Linken
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SOC008020
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Korea (North) Politics and government 20th century
;
Nordkorea
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North Korea
;
Nordkorea
;
Frauenbewegung
;
Frau
;
Feminismus
;
Frauenpolitik
;
Kommunistin
;
Geschichte 1948-1975
Abstract:
In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim excavates the transnational linkages between women of North Korea and a worldwide women's movement. Women of Asia, especially those espousing communism, are often portrayed as victims or pawns of a patriarchal Confucian state. Kim undercuts this standard analysis through detailed archival work in the international women's press, and finds that North Korean women asserted themselves in unexpected places from the late 1940s-just before the official beginning of the Korean War-to 1975, the year designated by the UN as International Women's Year. By centering North Korea and the "East," Kim defies convention to offer an entirely new genealogy of the global women's movement. Women of the Korean Democratic Women's Union (KDWU), as part of the global left women's movement led by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), insisted family and domestic issues must be part of both national and international debates, highlighting how race, nationality, sex, and class connect to form systems of colonial and capitalist exploitation. Their intersectional program claimed that there is "no peace without justice," that "the personal is the political," and that "women's rights are human rights" many decades before activists of the West embraced such agendas. Among Women across Worlds is an archaeology of forgotten movements and ideas that became the foundation for those that have come to define our era
Description / Table of Contents:
Women against the Korean War -- Anti-imperialist Struggle for a Just Peace -- Struggle between Two Lines -- Women's Work Is Never Done -- Aesthetics of Everyday Folk -- Communist Women around the World.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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