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Gender in Oblivion: Women in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) SONIA RYANG ¤ ABSTRACT This article discusses the gender and women in North Korea. Not much is known about North Korea, let alone its gender relations. Based on published literature as well as on partial ethnographic data, the article looks into the status of women in the country, which is similar in many senses to that of women in the former Soviet-in uenced socialist states, but is distinguished in an important area, that is, the relationship to the leader. The article suggests that whereas the category “mother” exists in North Korea, the category “women” is hardly recognized, thereby effacing the notion of gender altogether from the surface of the state politics. Introduction The Korean peninsula was partitioned into Soviet and American zones In 1945. Its division into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), both established in 1948, seemed permanent after the civil war of 1950-53. 1 The birth and development of the North Korean state are the result of the rising Cold War tension in post-war East Asia. With a population in 1993 of 23.7 million
Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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