The Origins of Cold War Feminism During the Korean War

Cold War Feminisms in East Asia

“…Similarly, I show how North Korean women acted in solidarity with other communist women, participating in the global cultures and movements of Cold War feminisms. Elsewhere, I have written about North Korean women's use of maternalism to advocate for peace and women's rights during the Korean War through participation in the Women's International Democratic Federation (Kim 2019a). Such activities show that the Cold War was not just a global confrontation populated by men as political leaders and frontline soldiers, but it also facilitated unprecedented mobilization of women as global activists, who embodied humanist notions of solidarity based on a shared experience of motherhood and womanhood.…”