Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship

YONSON AHN formerly Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany BARBARA EINHORN Professor of Gender Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Sussex, UK EUN-SHIL KIM Professor in the Department of Women's Studies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea KYU HYUN KIM Associate Professor of Japanese and Korean History, University of California, Davis, USA MICHAEL KIM Assistant Professor of Korean History, Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul, Korea SANGSOO KIM Assistant Professor, Faculty of English, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea CLAUDIA KOONZ Professor and Peabody Family Chair, Duke University, USA ALF LAuDTKE Honorary Professor, University of Erfurt and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea MALGORZATA MAZUREK Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany MICHAEL SCHOENHALS Professor of Chinese, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden WOONOK YEOM Research Professor, Institute of World and Global History, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilization of men and women in twentieth century European and Asian mass dictatorships and colonial empires, examining both mobilization 'from above' and self-empowerment 'from below'.Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilization of men and women in twentieth century European and Asian mass dictatorships and colonial empires, examining both mobilization 'from above' and self-empowerment 'from below'.