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Jiwoon Yu-Lee

GWSS Alumni '18 - Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Syracuse University
Jiwoon Yu-Lee, Ph.C.wins Duggan Fellowship

Fields of Interest

Activism Ethnography Feminist Theory Janitorial work Labor Oral History Political Economy Social division of labor Social Justice South Korea Transnational

Biography

Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of Washington, 2018
Certificate in Feminist Activism, Sungkonghoe University, 2009
M.A., Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, 2004
B.A., English, Kongju National University, 2001

Dissertation: Expressive Struggles: Neoliberal Temporalities and Social Reproduction of Feminized Labor in South Korea

Research

Selected Research

  • Jiwoon Yulee. "A Feminist Critique of Labor Precarity and Neoliberal Forgetting: Life Stories of Feminized Laboring Subjects in South Korea," Feminist Studies, Special Issue: Feminism & Capitalism, 2021, 47:3.
  • Yulee, J. (2018). Expressive Struggles: Neoliberal Temporalities and the Social Reproduction of Feminized Labor in South Korea. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
    Adviser: Priti Ramamurthy
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Resources & Related Links

Working Voice, KCLC Journal Article (in Korean)
"Boundary Struggle" in Slownews (in Korean)

Related News

Related News

  • Priti Ramamurthy & Jiwoon Yulee - Feminists on Capitalism (April 12, 2022)
  • Jiwoon Yulee Wins NWSA/UIP First Book Prize (October 28, 2020)
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