The Korean Women's Movement and the State: Bargaining for Change - Paperback

by Seung-Kyung Kim (Author), Kyounghee Kim (Author)

Recent feminist scholarship has emphasized 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. This book takes up theoretical debates on the relationship between gender and the state through an analysis of the relationship between the women's movement organizations and state-oriented gender politics during the ten year period of South Korea's progressive presidencies.

Author Biography

Seung-kyung Kim is Professor and Chair of Women's Studies, and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea and co-editor of Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives.

Kyounghee Kim is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.