The Korean Women's Movement and the State : bargaining for change /
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 e...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Series: | ASAA women in Asia series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: gender and the state; 2 The women's movement and gender policy: dynamics of resistance, tension, and negotiation; 3 Prostitution, feminist discourse, and the women's movement: the enactment of the law against prostitution (2004); 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 (2004-07)
- 6 Conclusion: the Korean women's movement at the crossroadsReferences; Index