North Korea's Women-led Grassroots Capitalism

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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