Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism. In this context, planners and pundits in the North turned to the female farmhands of the agrarian sector to coordinate the scientific and motherly care of the nation's flocks. As demonstrated in this article, a particular intersection of postwar demographics, scientific mobilisation and patriarchal thought led to the establishment of animal husbandry in North Korea as women's work.
Source: Gender & History
Authors: Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University, University of Sheffield
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDGs: Gender equality, Zero hunger
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,350
OpenAlex ID: W4413128879