Among Women across Worlds North Korea in the Global Cold War

Suzy Kim, "Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War"
English | ISBN: 1501767305 | 2023 | 348 pages | PDF | 39 MB
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.