[Dialogue] Feminists, Change Universities! / Kang Yisoo, Kim Hyun Mee, Paik Young-Gyung, Eum Hyejin
The Quarterly Changbi 198, Winter 2022
Abstract
In “Dialogue,” moderated by sociologist Paik Young-Gyung, participants Kang Yisoo, Kim Hyun Mee, and Eum Hyejin discuss the necessity of university reform and the role of feminists in it. Continuing the theme discussed in “Feminism Saves Universities,” a dialogue in Changbi three years ago, it assesses the condition universities are in currently, what roles feminists have played to create them, and how much progress in gender equality has been made. Considering their current contradictory state—that while universities are places of producing knowledge and higher education, they also often lag behind new trends—the participants emphasize, above all, that the assessment of the reality of universities from a feminist perspective is a process of examining the current state of the Korean society’s democracy. Their conversation presents a lively and productive discussion on various topics, including changes in universities after the me-too movement, the role of a gender-equality institution within universities, and the issue of feminist knowledge production and education.