Book Series III:
Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War (2023) by Suzy Kim
Among Women across Worlds (Cornell, 2023) is an international history of North Korea in the global Cold War orbiting around women as key players. The book defies convention to offer a new genealogy of the global women’s movement that centers the “East.” Women of the Korean Democratic Women’s Union, as part of the global left women’s movement led by the Women’s International Democratic Federation, insisted family and domestic issues must be part of both national and international debates, highlighting how race, nationality, sex, and class connect to form systems of exploitation. Their intersectional program claimed that there is “no peace without justice,” that “the personal is the political,” and that “women’s rights are human rights” many decades before activists of the West, with whom such calls have been associated. The book is an archaeology of forgotten movements and ideas that became the foundations for those that have come to define the present era.
Moderator:
Chie Ikeya
History, Rutgers-SAS
Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers
Panelists:
Shaun Armstead
History, Rutgers-SAS
Tani Barlow
History, Rice University
Suzy Kim
Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers-SAS
Ileana V. Nachescu
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers-SAS
Welcome to Rutgers!
positions: asia critique
Housed in the Department of
Asian Languages & Cultures
Senior Editors:
Tani Barlow
Suzy Kim
Managing Editor:
Dale Booth
Co-sponsored by
Global Asias, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers Global,
Department of History, and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures