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

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

348 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781501767326

Related ISBNs:

9781501767302, 9781501767319, 9781501778858

Publisher:

Cornell University Press

Date of Addition:

10/01/24

Copyrighted By:

Suzy Kim, The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government

Grade Levels:

Graduate Student

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Bookshare Staff

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