Women’s Work Experiences as a Breadwinner and Absence of Men in the Family During and After the Korean War: An Analysis of Life Histories of Two Elderly Women Born in 1920s

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-344
Author(s):  
Hyo-Jung Kim ◽  
Eon-Ju Park
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Korean War

scholarly journals Women's Work and The Library: Ideological Shaping of the Academic Librarian as the Alt-academic

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Eva Revitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Academic Mission ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Academic Librarian ◽  
Mode Of Production

Overwhelmingly, librarians working at Canadian universities are considered academic staff, if not faculty. However, the role and fit of the academic librarian within the academic enterprise is overshadowed and frequently misunderstood. As alt-academics, librarians' expertise and contribution to the university's academic mission is often sidelined: the nature of the work too frequently viewed through an organizational rather than an academic lens and characterized as preoccupied with a structured set of regularized responsibilities. Drawing on the findings of my doctoral research, an institutional ethnography of librarians' work experiences as academic staff, this article argues that social relations such as those that construct work value are historically rotted and ideologically determined. I propose that our speech, text, and talk, indeed our social consciousness, is permeated by two ideological codes—women's work and the library—that structure librarians' labour in a particular way. Ultimately, I link the devaluation of librarians' work to the necessary gendered exploitation of labour that happens within a capitalist mode of production.  

Can We Live as One Family? Rethinking the Two Koreas' Kinship in John Hoon's Kang Tek-koo

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-283
Author(s):  
SUK-YOUNG KIM
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Korean War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Language ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
North And South

John Hoon's play, Kang Tek-koo, tells the story of the unexpected encounter between two half-brothers, one South Korean and the other North Korean, in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the play, the conventional tragic scene of the reunion of the family members separated by the Korean War is dealt with in a resilient comic spirit from the perspective of a younger generation of South Koreans. This article examines the production of Kang Tek-koo by the South Korean company Apple Theatre, which took place in 2001 – a time when the fluid dynamics of globalization were encompassing Korea, and the transnational flow of media, people, and ideology opened up the possibility for North and South Koreans to interact and search for a common language, culture, home and nationhood.

Women's Work and the Family Economy in Historical Perspective.

1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 754
Author(s):  
Jane Lewis ◽  
Pat Hudson ◽  
W. R. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family

The Division of Matrimonial Property in Tanzania

1990 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Mtengeti-Migiro
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Time ◽  
State Of Affairs

For a long time, women's work has not been valued very highly, mainly because of the belief in many cultures that whatever is undertaken in the house is a natural duty and/or act of love for the husband and the family. Indeed, in many parts of subsistence Africa, the heavy duties performed by women in preparing, planting, weeding, and harvesting crops are regarded as ‘domestic’ commitments and hence not serious labour. This situation can hardly be said to be characteristic of only ‘non-developed’ societies, in which patriarchal attitudes are still dominant, since according to a 1985 study, although women make up more than half of the world's population and do two-thirds of the world's working hours, they receive only one-hundredth of the worl'ds property. This state of affairs, however, is now changing, because as women everywhere unite in order to achieve legal, social, and economic equality, the value attached to their work naturally increases.

“People like You and Me”: The Korean War, Humanitarian Aid, and Creating Compassion

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Paul S. Cha
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
The Korean War

Abstract During the 1950s a number of private and voluntary aid organizations (PVOs) in the United States mobilized to address the humanitarian crisis caused by the Korean War. However, the activities and roles PVOs played in both providing humanitarian relief in South Korea and shaping American perceptions of the country are poorly understood. This article examines the strategies PVOs employed in their campaigns to convince Americans to contribute aid. The existence of need was a necessary but not sufficient condition. As scholars of humanitarian aid have argued, potential donors might view images of suffering with pity and sympathy but then quickly turn away. Donors must feel a sense of solidarity to move beyond sympathy and act in compassion. This work demonstrates that PVOs tried to create narratives of commonality between Americans and South Koreans. However, a reliance on images of poverty—which were critical to raise money—conflicted with the message that South Koreans were, like Americans, independent and hardworking people. The aid groups’ strategic attempts to mitigate this dissonance by focusing on the supposedly weak (elderly, women, children, and amputees) had the unintended consequence of casting South Korea as an emasculated nation needing to be “saved.”

Women’s Work and the Family Economy : Textiles and Palm Leaf Hatmaking in New England, 1830–1850

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
Thomas Dublin
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Palm Leaf

In May 1832 the recently married Roxanna Bowker Stowell wrote from her new home in St. Johns-bury, Vermont to Dexter Whittemore, a country storekeeper in her native town of Fitzwilliam. New Hampshire. She asked him to send split palm leaf which she hoped to braid into hats and sell back to him for cash to meet family expenses. « [M]once is so very scarce and we must have some, » she wrote. Thirteen years later, fifteen-year old Mary Paul wrote her father from Woodstock, Vermont, where she was living with an aunt and uncle: « I want you to consent to let me go to Lowell if you can. I think it would be much I cannot get if I stay about here.

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