This study considers South Korean economic development from the perspective of young female factory workers, who grapple with defining their roles in respect to marriage and motherhood. Kim explores the women's individual and collective struggles to improve their positions and examines their links with other political forces within the labor movement. She analyzes how female workers envision their place in society, how they cope with economic and social marginalization in their daily lives, and how they develop strategies for a better future.
This study considers South Korean economic development from the perspective of young female factory workers, who grapple with defining their roles in ...
This book asks what strategies women s movements in Korea 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...
This book asks what strategies women s movements in Korea can employ to induce law and policy changes at the national level that will assist women ...
