Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950

摘要

All social revolutions in modern history, from the Russian Revolution of 1917nto the Cuban one of 1959, have attempted to address the status of women as ancritical element of social change.n1nNorth Korea was no different. With Japan’sndefeat in World War II, Korea was liberated from its thirty-five-year colonialnrule, and as in many postcolonial nations after the war, revolution was in thenair.n2nWhen the ColdWar came early to the peninsula, Korea took two divergentnpaths. Divided at the 38th parallel into separate occupation zones