Chung-Hee Soh here contributes a unique perspective on women in
politics by analyzing the ethnographic materials on the experiences
of Korean women in their national legislature. Among the questions
she raises are: Who are these women? How did they attain their
political positions? What motivated their participation in
male-dominated politics? Soh investigates the life histories of
twenty-nine women who have been chosen to serve in the South Korean
National Assembly. Her study sheds light on the dynamics of
sociocultural change in male-female relations and gender role
conceptions in a modernizing society.
Soh obtained unique insights into the processes of change in the
gender role system by studying the chosen women in male-dominated
Korean politics. The experiences of Korean women in politics not
only delineate the systematic limits to female life in Korean
culture, but also reveal some commonalities in social structural
impediments to women in high-level public office. The author
provides cross-cultural comparative perspectives on such topics as
family backgrounds, gender role socialization, the patterns of
recruitment, and the impact of the electoral system on the
representation of women in national politics. Soh adds an important
new dimension to the study of women in politics by situating her
findings in the broader sociohistorical context of a modernizing
nation and offers useful insights into the processes of
sociohistorical change in the gender-role system. Her book will be
welcomed by sociocultural anthropolgists, political scientists,
Asian historians, and women's studies scholars.
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