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Among Women across Worlds - North Korea in the Global Cold War (Hardcover)
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Among Women across Worlds - North Korea in the Global Cold War (Hardcover)
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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.
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