{"title":"Suzy Kim","description":"Suzy Kim is Professor of Korean History at Rutgers University.","products":[{"product_id":"everyday-life-in-the-north-korean-revolution-1945-1950-paperback","title":"Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life. In \u003ci\u003eEveryday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people's lives in the development of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea insists on setting its own course.Kim's innovative use of documents seized by U.S. military forces during the Korean War and now stored in the National Archives--personnel files, autobiographies, minutes of organizational meetings, educational materials, women's magazines, and court documents--together with oral histories allows her to present the first social history of North Korea during its formative years. In an account that makes clear the leading role of women in these efforts, Kim examines how villagers experienced, understood, and later remembered such events as the first land reform and modern elections in Korea's history, as well as practices in literacy schools, communal halls, mass organizations, and study sessions that transformed daily routine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367071219935,"sku":"9781501705687","price":61.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/frIdGwf3KF9781501705687.webp?v=1789102306"},{"product_id":"among-women-across-worlds-north-korea-in-the-global-cold-war-paperback","title":"Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Hong Yung Lee Book Award of the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmong Women across Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement. \u003c\/b\u003eAsian women, especially communists, are often depicted as victims of a patriarchal state. Kim challenges this view through extensive archival research, revealing that North Korean women asserted themselves from the late 1940s to 1975, before the Korean War began and up to the UN's International Women's Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim centers on North Korea and the \"East\" to present a new genealogy of the global women's movement. Women of the Korean Democratic Women's Union (KDWU), part of the global left women's movement led by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), argued that family and domestic issues should be central to both national and international debates. They highlighted the connections between race, nationality, sex, and class in systems of exploitation. Their intersectional program proclaimed \"no peace without justice,\" \"the personal is the political,\" and \"women's rights are human rights,\" long before Western activists adopted these ideas. \u003ci\u003eAmong Women across Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers movements and ideas foundational to today's era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368432402655,"sku":"9781501778858","price":61.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bksYloRJhI9781501778858.webp?v=1789128409"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/suzy-kim.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}