Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-151) and index.
Contents:
Theoretical overview -- Women before 1945 -- Evolution to political beings in post-liberation era -- Learning and doing politics : strategies and works -- Network formation in protest movement -- Resource mobilization and protest strategies -- Mothers' stories -- Conclusions and prospects -- Appendix: Documents of Gwangju uprising.
Summary:
This book is about protest politics and social movements led by a group of women, the "Mothers," who were inadvertently drawn into South Koreaʹs democratization movement from the 1970s to the 2000s. The Mothers were female family members of political dissidents of varying backgrounds and ages -- college students, political and religious leaders, writers, and factory workers. Women who initially had very little in common developed a bond as the days of their familiesʹ detentions accumulated and their ordeals continued. This led them to form a quasi-organization prayer meeting group in the 1970s, which eventually developed into permanent Mothersʹ organizations in the mid-1980s. The Mothers in this book include both the early- and late-comers to the movement, as the membership has undergone many changes since its inception in the 1970s. While the individual Mothers are the primary focus, this book explores beyond their individual concerns and activities. It discusses various methods the individual Mothers employed to promote their causes and attempts to study how the activities of the organizations founded by the inexperienced Mothers have affected the process of Koreaʹs democratization and how they remain active decades later. -- Publisher description.
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