How have women risen up collectively to create change—and influenced broader movements in the process? What has made women particularly effective protesters, and what ideas have women come up with that have changed the art of protest?
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Following a series of high-profile incidents of misogyny and sexual violence against women in recent years, the #MeToo movement in Korea has taken off as one of the most relevant and urgent social issues today. This is a lecture series in the sociology department at the Pusan National University.… more
I was cleaning up some files and thought I’d share this here. It’s from the “Spring Forward, Fall Back?: Progress and Challenges in Korean Gender Studies” panel organized by Hyaeweol Choi (Australian National University) at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) meeting in Seattle nearly a year ago on April 2, 2016. I presented some comments (and stories) about queer politics.… more
Jennifer Jihye Chun and I are co-editing a special issue for Journal of Korean Studies on the topic of Gender and Politics in Contemporary Korea. Deadline is August 1, 2013. Taking as a starting point that gender operates as a fundamental organizing principle in various arenas of social, political, economic, religious, and cultural life, this special issue invites cross-disciplinary approaches from scholars working at the intersection of Korean studies, feminist studies and the social sciences. … more
Advertised as a position in “gender geography,” this position should interest feminist geographers and gender studies scholars with geography emphasis.… more
FYI, an e-journal announcement. — The new e-journal Religion and Gender is pleased to announce the publication of its first… more
Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Position Start Date, 9/1/2012 University of Massachusetts/Amherst Searching for scholar… more
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities The Women’s and Gender Studies Department, in collaboration with the Institute for Research on… more
GENDER, RACE AND ENVIRONMENT Applications are invited for a tenure-track position, at the Assistant Professor level, in Gender, Race and… more
Post-Doctoral Teaching Appointment Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Program University of British Columbia The Women’s and Gender Studies undergraduate program… more