Bronwen Dalton, Kyungja Jung

North Korea's Women-led Grassroots Capitalism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

North Korea is in the throes of economic and social, if not political, transition. This book examines the complex relationship between gender roles and economic and social changes in North Korea.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003811688
• Artikelnr.: 69144888

Autorenporträt

Kyungja Jung is Associate Professor in Social and Political Change at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Bronwen Dalton is Professor of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Women's agency and everyday resistance in transitional North Korea

1. Rhetoric versus Reality: Women, law and policy

2. The Auntie Economy: Women-led grassroots capitalism

3. Destabilising Patriarchy: Relaxed gender roles in family relations

4. 'Dressing well and looking pretty': Social construction of femininity in the jangmadang economy

5. Covert resistance: Women's health and reproduction

6. Sexual revolution: Intimacy, love and marriage in transition

7. Nouveau riche or nouveau rouge: Leadership and the modern North Korean woman

8. The Question of Regime Stability: Women, marketisation and the challenge of change

Conclusion: Women getting away with it



Index