The Korean women's movement and the state : bargaining for change
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Bibliographic Information
The Korean women's movement and the state : bargaining for change
(ASAA women in Asia series / editor, Louise Edwards)
Routledge, 2016, c2014
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 2014 by Routledge"--T.p. verso
"First issued in paperback 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [122]-140) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Gender and the State 2. The Women's Movement and Gender Policy: Dynamics of Resistance, Tension, and Negotiation 3. The Anti-Sexual Traffic Act (2004): Feminist Discourse and the Movement to Abolish Prostitution 4. The Personal is Political: The Abolition of the Family-Head System (2005) 5. From Feminist Politics to Family Politics: The Healthy Family Law and Childcare Policy (2004-2007) 6. Conclusion: The Korean Women's Movement at the Crossroads
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