description: series of political campaigns for reforms on feminist issues
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by Hawon Jung · 21 Mar 2023 · 401pp · 112,589 words
past few years, South Korean women have pushed back like never before. Inspired by the #MeToo campaign in the United States and a surge of feminist movements at home, South Korea’s #MeToo story is one of the most successful in Asia and beyond. Women like Kim and Na-Young have fought
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from outside the movement but also from within: lack of resources, burnout, and endless online squabbles over who qualifies as “real” feminists. And like many feminist movements elsewhere, past and present—or grassroots social movements of any kind—South Korean women and their activism are far from perfect; they can be smart
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write it”—I set out to write this book. This book largely portrays the lives of the people who led or powered the South Korean feminist movements from 2015 to 2021, which ushered in many monumental legal, social, and cultural changes. This book shows the battles—both the crushing defeats and the
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how few laws there were to punish sexual assault and domestic abuse, meant that creating new laws to name and punish such violence became the feminist movement’s top priority. So, beginning in the late eighties, a community of advocates, lawyers, and scholars rallied behind victims of high-profile abuse cases, conducted
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had fought for democratization] realized that without feminism, political democracy would remain incomplete forever,” she continued, “and they decided to chart their own path of feminist movement—while still keeping their roots in the fight for democracy and wider social activism.” This new generation of feminists was also among the first to
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. CHAPTER 4 As bizarre as it may sound, it was a respiratory disease from the Middle East that helped begin a new chapter of the feminist movement in the late 2010s. In 2015, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) swept through South Korea, infecting more than 180 people. It was the largest
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ordinary South Korean woman that became a blockbuster, selling more than 1.3 million copies in South Korea and becoming a rallying cry of the feminist movement at home and beyond. Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982, published in October 2016, portrays the everyday sexism and discrimination the title character experiences. Translated into
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one [woman] less” in Spanish), respectively in support of the then-ongoing campaign to abolish the abortion laws in Ireland102 and a new wave of feminist movement in Argentina that would eventually play a key role in legalizing abortion there.103 Some others also waved banners that said, “Zalegalizuje aborcję” (“Legalize abortion
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were ready to talk, and society was not ready to listen to them at all even if they would speak,” she said. “But the new feminist movement triggered by the Gangnam Station murder changed it all—more women could speak up with less fears of social stigma, knowing their voices would be
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feminists in South Korea, as they find themselves facing a barrage of attacks. South Korea is hardly alone, though. In Spain, a powerful wave of feminist movements sparked by a high-profile gang-rape of a woman in 2016 gave rise to the advance of a far-right party that espoused anti
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victory marked the culmination of this wave of backlash. The marriage of right-wing politics with anti-feminism is a familiar story worldwide,5 with feminist movements often marked by a step forward followed by two steps back—a modicum of progress followed by years of backlash. But the ferocity of the
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advocating 6B4T were shut down, and the term was banned on a major online platform where the campaigners shared their thoughts.25 South Korea’s feminist movement also resonated widely in Japan, another neighbor in Northeast Asia. “South Korea’s robust political and feminist activism like the candlelight rallies and #MeToo campaign
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, April 24, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/spain-vox-feminism/587824/ Adrien Vincente,”Spanish Feminist movement faces far-right backlash,” AFP, January 11, 2019, https://sg.news.yahoo.com/spanish-feminist-movement-faces-far-backlash-035348625.html 2Leta Hong Fincher, “Why Peng Shuai Has China’s Leaders Spooked,” The New
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the result of its investigation into sexual harassment involving former Seoul mayor], press release, January 25, 2021 7Cheon Gwan-Yul, [The way the comrade of feminist movement let Park Won-Soon go], SisaIn, November 29, 2021, https://www.sisain.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=42599 8Choi Jin-Ryeol, [Lee Jun-Seok
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is erasing “radical” accounts that shun men and the patriarchy,” Quartz, April 14, 2021, https://qz.com/1996143/chinas-douban-censors-ideas-from-south-korean-feminist-movement/ Manya Koetse, “Censorship of Chinese 6B4T & Feminist Groups Prompts Wave of Support for “Douban Sisters,” What’s on Weibo, April 13, 2021, https://www.whatsonweibo
by Matt Ridley · 14 Aug 1993 · 474pp · 136,787 words
Professional women value the earning capacity of their husbands more, not less, than low-earning women. Even a survey of fifteen powerful leaders of the feminist movement revealed that they wanted still more powerful men. As Buss’s colleague Bruce Ellis put it, ‘Women’s sexual tastes become more, rather than less
by Scaachi Koul · 7 Mar 2017 · 178pp · 61,242 words
, and temples are merely there for your enjoyment. In the second, India is a country lurching forward awkwardly, suffering a rape epidemic, incapable of a feminist movement or proper health care, a place where people shit and piss in the streets, where the caste system has ruined entire generations, where poverty is
by Mary Beard · 2 Nov 2017 · 50pp · 15,155 words
of life, and, as long as that continues to be true, we will need to understand and engage with the ideas and history of the feminist movement. ISBN 978 1 78125 837 8
by Melissa Broder · 15 Mar 2016 · 140pp · 47,093 words
when I see feminism used as clickbait, it kind of makes me want to puke or die. This is not a condemnation of the contemporary feminist movement (or movements), but a revulsion to clickbait. To engage in depth with the ephemeral that is marketing culture makes my inner witch nauseous. I feel
by Steve Stewart-Williams · 12 Sep 2018 · 1,132pp · 156,379 words
States, women’s stronger preference for financial prospects persisted right through the twentieth century, even surviving the Sexual Revolution and the second wave of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 70s.96 Meanwhile, anthropological research suggests that the sex difference isn’t limited to modern, industrialized nations. Jonathan Gottschall and colleagues
by Amanda Montell · 27 May 2019 · 212pp · 68,649 words
the 1970s, there was simply no canon of empirical data on the subject. The dawn of this field of study coincided with the second-wave feminist movement, when there was a larger political need to understand the hidden sexism in English. Anyone who was anyone in the field of sociolinguistics at the
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. Grammar, Romaine argues, is a feminist concern, and there’s a reason why suffixes and noun agreement have been at the center of the French feminist movement in a way that they haven’t in the United States. That’s because, in languages with grammatical gender, the sexist implications are out in
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reform. It’s no coincidence that Native Tongue, the Wickedary, and Robin Lakoff’s Language and Woman’s Place were published during the second-wave feminist movement. During that highly political era, social empowerment inspired linguistic empowerment. But interest in gender and language reform ebbs and flows. Zimman says that in the
by William Poundstone · 1 Jan 2010 · 519pp · 104,396 words
which of the following was more likely to be true: Linda is a bank teller. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. Eight-five percent rated the second statement more likely than the first. That’s ridiculous. The only way Linda can be a bank teller and
by Shane Parrish · 22 Nov 2019 · 147pp · 39,910 words
also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Which is more probable? Linda is a bank teller. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. The majority of respondents chose option 2. Why? The wording used to describe her suggests Linda is feminist. But Linda could only be a bank
by Scott J. Shapiro · 523pp · 154,042 words
she also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Which is more probable? Linda is a bank teller. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. In numerous studies, approximately 80 percent of participants thought it more likely that Linda was a teller active in the
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feminist movement. To them, Linda seems like a feminist. Indeed, she fits the feminist stereotype to a T: a young woman who cares about social justice, is
by Bridget Christie · 1 Jul 2015 · 252pp · 85,441 words
by Luvvie Ajayi · 12 Sep 2016 · 232pp · 78,701 words
by Eliza Reid · 15 Jul 2021
by Paul Campos · 4 May 2005
by Daniel Kahneman · 24 Oct 2011 · 654pp · 191,864 words
by Maria Konnikova · 3 Jan 2013 · 317pp · 97,824 words
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
by Nancy Jo Sales · 17 May 2021 · 445pp · 135,648 words
by Emily Witt · 10 Oct 2016 · 197pp · 64,958 words
by Daniel Gardner · 23 Jun 2009 · 542pp · 132,010 words
by Phoebe Robinson · 15 Oct 2018 · 257pp · 90,857 words
by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · 7 Apr 2008 · 304pp · 22,886 words
by Caroline Elton · 1 Mar 2018 · 351pp · 101,051 words
by Angela Saini · 29 May 2017 · 296pp · 86,188 words
by David Bianculli · 15 Nov 2016 · 676pp · 203,386 words
by Charles Murray · 28 Jan 2020 · 741pp · 199,502 words
by James D. Miller · 14 Jun 2012 · 377pp · 97,144 words
by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi · 17 Aug 2004 · 318pp · 93,502 words
by Maya Dusenbery · 6 Mar 2018 · 504pp · 147,722 words
by Bruce Frey · 9 May 2006 · 755pp · 121,290 words
by Brigid Schulte · 11 Mar 2014 · 455pp · 133,719 words
by Mike Mullane · 24 Jan 2006 · 506pp · 167,034 words
by Abby Ellin · 15 Jan 2019 · 340pp · 91,745 words
by Nancy Jo Sales · 23 Feb 2016 · 487pp · 147,238 words
by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy · 14 Apr 2020
by Steven Pinker · 14 Oct 2021 · 533pp · 125,495 words
by Nicole Aschoff · 10 Mar 2015 · 128pp · 38,187 words
by Orly Lobel · 17 Oct 2022 · 370pp · 112,809 words
by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023
by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig · 15 Mar 2020
by Andy McSmith · 19 Nov 2010 · 613pp · 151,140 words
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020
by Laura Bates · 2 Sep 2020 · 364pp · 119,398 words
by Kathi Weeks · 8 Sep 2011 · 350pp · 110,764 words
by Dominic Sandbrook · 29 Sep 2010 · 932pp · 307,785 words
by Michael Lewis · 6 Dec 2016 · 336pp · 113,519 words
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2014 · 477pp · 106,069 words
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
by Silvia Federici · 4 Oct 2012 · 277pp · 80,703 words
by Angela Nagle · 6 Jun 2017 · 122pp · 38,022 words
by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay · 14 Jul 2020 · 378pp · 107,957 words
by Gary Younge · 27 Jun 2011 · 298pp · 89,287 words
by Yascha Mounk · 26 Sep 2023
by Sarah Jaffe · 26 Jan 2021 · 490pp · 153,455 words
by Leonard Mlodinow · 12 May 2008 · 266pp · 86,324 words
by Nellie Bowles · 13 May 2024 · 207pp · 62,397 words
by Nesrine Malik · 4 Sep 2019
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn · 7 Sep 2008 · 332pp · 104,587 words
by Ian Dunt · 15 Oct 2020
by Richard E. Nisbett · 17 Aug 2015 · 397pp · 109,631 words
by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words
by Richard J. Evans · 31 Aug 2016 · 976pp · 329,519 words
by Nick Cohen · 15 Jul 2015 · 414pp · 121,243 words
by Selina Todd · 11 Feb 2021 · 598pp · 150,801 words
by David McRaney · 20 Sep 2011 · 270pp · 83,506 words
by Premilla Nadasen · 10 Oct 2023 · 288pp · 82,972 words
by John Cassidy · 12 May 2025 · 774pp · 238,244 words
by Ruth Kinna · 31 Jul 2019 · 405pp · 103,723 words
by Darrin M. McMahon · 14 Nov 2023 · 534pp · 166,876 words
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
by Jennifer Burns · 18 Oct 2009 · 495pp · 144,101 words
by Ilan Pappe · 30 Apr 2012 · 387pp · 120,092 words
by Elizabeth S. Anderson · 22 May 2017 · 205pp · 58,054 words
by Ray Oldenburg · 17 Aug 1999
by Howard Zinn · 2 Jan 1977 · 913pp · 299,770 words
by Sylvere Lotringer, Christian Marazzi · 2 Aug 2005
by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght · 20 Mar 2017
by Christopher Lasch · 1 Jan 1978
by Robin Wright · 28 Feb 2008 · 648pp · 165,654 words
by Francis Fukuyama · 1 Mar 2000
by Mark Kurlansky · 30 Dec 2003 · 538pp · 164,533 words
by Talia Lavin · 14 Jul 2020 · 231pp · 71,299 words
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by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore · 16 Oct 2017 · 335pp · 89,924 words
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by Robert Elliott Smith · 26 Jun 2019 · 370pp · 107,983 words
by Daniel Kunitz · 4 Jul 2016 · 321pp · 92,258 words
by Malcolm Gladwell · 26 Apr 2021 · 161pp · 49,972 words
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 1 Jan 2004 · 475pp · 149,310 words
by Arundhati Roy · 5 May 2014 · 91pp · 26,009 words
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 9 Mar 2000 · 1,015pp · 170,908 words
by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim · 10 Jun 2013 · 204pp · 58,565 words
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by Richard Kluger · 1 Jan 1996 · 1,157pp · 379,558 words
by Julia Ebner · 20 Feb 2020 · 309pp · 79,414 words
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by Ian Kershaw · 29 Aug 2018 · 736pp · 233,366 words
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by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron · 14 Apr 2001
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by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 4 May 2015 · 306pp · 85,836 words
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