Seung-kyung Kim
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Expert Bio
Seung-kyung Kim is a professor and director of the Institute for Korean Studies at IU Bloomington. Her scholarship addresses the participation of women in social movements as workers and in relation to the state; the processes of transnational migration in the context of globalization and the experiences of families in that process, especially with regard to education; and feminist theories of social change.
Besides numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the author of “Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea” (Cambridge University Press, 2009/1997) and “The Korean Women’s Movement and the State: Bargaining for Change” (Routledge, 2014), and co-editor of “Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives” (Routledge, 2016/2013/2009/2003).
Areas of Expertise
The participation of women in social movements as workers and in relation to the state; the processes of transnational migration in the context of globalization and the experiences of families in that process, especially with regard to education; and feminist theories of social change.
