Kwon In-sook

In this Korean name, the family name is Kwon.
Kwon In-sook
권인숙
Member of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 May 2020
ConstituencyProportional representation
Personal details
Born (1964-08-28) 28 August 1964 (age 60)
Wonju, Gangreung, South Korea
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materSeoul National University
Rutgers University
Clark University

Kwon In-sook (also Kwŏn Insuk or Insook; born 1964) is a former South Korean labor organizer who inspired women in South Korea to form the Korean Women's Associations United (KWAU).[1] Kwon is the first woman to bring charges of sexual assault against the South Korean government.[2] She was also considered by historian Namhee Lee to be "an emblematic figure of South Korea in the 1980s; she embodied the passion, the ideals, and the conflicting aspirations of the 1980s democratization movement."[3] Kwon later became a feminist scholar in South Korea.[3]

  1. ^ Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon (2000). "Minjung Feminism: Korean Women's Movement for Gender and Class Liberation". In Smith, Bonnie G. (ed.). Global Feminisms Since 1945. New York: Routledge. p. 125. ISBN 0415184908.
  2. ^ Lynn, Hyung Gu (2007). Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas Since 1989. New York: Zed Books. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9781842777428.
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