Cold War Feminisms in East Asia

Kim, Suzy

doi:10.1215/10679847-8315101

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“…Building on the work of Marilyn Young, "Cold Wars", and Suzy Kim-who argues that "the Cold War's binary frame served to reinforce the gendered binary, so that neither the Cold War nor feminism can be divorced from one another in their historical unfolding"-Dulles must be understood in the context of "feminisms" in whose meanings change over time and location (Young 1991;Kim 2020). Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp note, "[I]t can seem problematic to apply the label 'feminist' to activist women, [when] they refuse to use this term for themselves" (Ferree and Tripp 2006).…”

Section: Complicating Religious and Political Binaries: Women And Bio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Velvet Steel” Ministers for God and America: Eleanor Lansing Dulles and the Nineteenth-Century Legacy of Christianity and Nationalism

Phillips

2022

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The political impact of Dr. Eleanor Lansing Dulles has not been assessed in her capacity as a power broker who brought her theological understandings to Cold War United States policy. The deep influence of both her brothers—Allen, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and John Foster, Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower—on global affairs and diplomacy has been the topic of myriad studies. Works draw extensively on family biography, noting that both “nature and nurture” brought religion to US foreign policy. Including Dr. Dulles in the analysis provides nuance and complexity to definitions of Christian nationalism and underscores the legacy of both missionaries and religious thought in US foreign relations during the early Cold War. Contextualizing religiosity through a study of gender and the Dulles family legacy of female missionaries into the Cold War narrative builds upon the existing literature of the Dulles family, religion, and Cold War diplomacy to challenge concepts such as Christian internationalism, Christian nationalism, and Left–Right binaries. Diplomacy is revealed as her form of Christian missionary work in the secular sphere. Eleanor Lansing Dulles became a missionary not for a religion, but for a nation.

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Section: Complicating Religious and Political Binaries: Women And Bio...mentioning

confidence: 99%