Fashion and the Social Construction of Femininity in North Korea.
In this paper we argue that North Korea’s socioeconomic transformation has had a profound and yet under-appreciated impact on the social construction of femininity. Drawing on 45 in-depth interviews with North Korean refugees, interviews with regular visitors to North Korea and NGO workers, and our...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 507 - 526 |
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