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Author | : Chunghee Sarah Soh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2021-12-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000011216 |
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A study of women in South Korean politics. Through life histories elicited by interviews and supplemented by published materials, Soh studies 29 women who were elected or appointed to the South Korean legislature. She asks who these chosen women are, how they attained their positions, and what motivated them. In doing so, she attempts to illuminate the systematic limits to female life in Korean culture.
Author | : Chunghee S. Soh |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1991-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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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.
Author | : N. Jones |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2016-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1403984611 |
Download Gender and the Political Opportunities of Democratization in South Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores how political opportunities afforded by democratization, including the relative balance of power between conservative and progressive civic actors, shape power relations between men and women in post-authoritarian Korea. Jones reveals that organized women can make a difference - depending on their strategic choices and alliances, and the manner in which they negotiate evolving political institutions. Moreover, democratic consolidation need not be led by political parties, but can provide surprising opportunities for an organized civil society to press for a deepening of political and human rights.
Author | : Theodore Jun Yoo |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2014-05-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520283813 |
Download The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. Theodore Jun Yoo shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy new positions outside the home, they encountered the pervasive control of the colonial state, which sought to impose modernity on them. While some Korean women conformed to the dictates of colonial hegemony, others took deliberate pains to distinguish between what was "modern" (e.g., Western outfits) and thus legitimate, and what was "Japanese," and thus illegitimate. Yoo argues that what made the experience of these women unique was the dual confrontation with modernity itself and with Japan as a colonial power.
Author | : Seung-kyung Kim |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317817788 |
Download The Korean Women's Movement and the State Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book asks what strategies women’s movements can employ to induce law and policy changes at the national level that will assist women’s equality without sacrificing their feminist energy, movement cohesiveness and core feminist commitments. The book takes up this question in order to emphasize the need not only to recognize the accomplishments of women’s movements through political participation, but also to analyze the process through which feminist organizations interact with formal politics. It examines the institutionalization of the Korean women’s movement under the progressive presidencies of Kim Dae Jung (1998-2002) and Roh Moo Hyun (2003-2007), focusing on three major pieces of legislation concerning women’s rights that were enacted during this time, and looks at the process of gender politics and the strategic bargains that needed to be made between the women’s movement and other political forces in order to advance their agenda. It questions whether the institutionalization of the women’s movement inevitably results in demobilization and deradicalization, and goes on to examine the relationship between the women’s movement and the government over the two most women-friendly administrations in South Korean history, a period marked by flourishing civil society activism and participatory democracy.
Author | : Kyounghee Kim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joyce Gelb |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-01-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1439900965 |
Download Women Of Japan & Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Original research on the changing roles of women in Japan and Korea.
Author | : Angela B. Cornell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108879632 |
Download The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We are currently witnessing some of the greatest challenges to democratic regimes since the 1930s, with democratic institutions losing ground in numerous countries throughout the world. At the same time organized labor has been under assault worldwide, with steep declines in union density rates. In this timely handbook, scholars in law, political science, history, and sociology explore the role of organized labor and the working class in the historical construction of democracy. They analyze recent patterns of democratic erosion, examining its relationship to the political weakening of organized labor and, in several cases, the political alliances forged by workers in contexts of nationalist or populist political mobilization. The volume breaks new ground in providing cross-regional perspectives on labor and democracy in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Beyond academia, this volume is essential reading for policymakers and practitioners concerned with the relationship between labor and democracy.
Author | : Youngtae Shin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Women and Politics in Japan and Korea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is about the role of women in Korean and Japanese politics over the past century. It is exceedingly rare to have a comparative analysis of politics in Japan and the Republic of Korea, which gives this book a special status. At the same time these are countries with remarkably low levels of political participation by women, so it is very important to have an analysis of the reasons for this outcome. In the 1970s women accounted for less than two percent of legislative representatives in Japan, and less than one percent in Korea; today women constitute about seven percent of the members in each legislature, but these levels are still comparatively low in the developed world: about forty-three percent of Sweden's legislators are women, and women constitute more than 30 percent of Germany's Bundestag; the level in the U.S. Congress is about thirteen per cent.
Author | : Elaine H. Kim |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136048065 |
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Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated and infantilized "homeland;" they are also shown to be products of a problematic gender construction that originates in Korea, and extends even today to Korean communities beyond Asia. Representations of Korean women still attempt to confine them to the status of either mother or prostitute: Dangerous Women rectifies that construction, offering a feminist intervention that might recuperate womanhood.