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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Suzy Kim, "Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Description: In Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2023), Suzy Kim follows Korean womenâs engagement in a broader international womenâs movement from the beginnings of the Korean War in the 1940s until International Womenâs Year in 1975. Obscured by layers of âcascading erasures,â the communist women of North Korea have been overlooked in traditional narratives of Asian and feminist history. By tracing their participation in global networks like the Womenâs International Democratic Federation, Kim excavates their ideas about work and family, war and peace, and imperialism and capitalism. Turning to womenâs magazi...