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Gender politics in the Korean transition to democracy

Jeong-Lim Nam's essay on Korean women's battles against dictatorship in the 1980s.

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Jeong-Lim Nam
Submitted by wojtek on February 3, 2017
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From Korean Studies. Volume 24, 2000. pp. 94-112

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  • women
  • 1980s
  • manufacturing and materials
  • strikes
  • 1970s
  • South Korea
  • feminism
  • sexual violence
  • Jeong-Lim Nam
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