@article{ART003210599},
author={HeoHyunJoo},
title={The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2025},
volume={82},
number={2},
pages={445-481},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445}
TY - JOUR
AU - HeoHyunJoo
TI - The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2025
VL - 82
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 445
EP - 481
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This study examines the formation and development of the Siheung Women’s Hotline, founded in 1997. While previous studies have focused on feminist movements in Seoul, this research analyzes how feminist activism emerged in a local context, catalyzed by the 1996 Lee Sang-hee case and led by religious activists. Drawing on institutional documents, city council records, and oral interviews, the study finds that the organization expanded its role from victim counseling to political engagement while adapting feminist discourse to a conservative community setting. It further reveals that institutionalization after 2001, including financial separation and administrative pressure, led to diminished grassroots participation and fragmented activist identity. The Siheung case illustrates that local feminist movements are shaped by national agendas yet confronted with distinct constraints. Rather than a singular challenge, the study argues that a set of overlapping structural crises — between center and periphery, movement and institution, activism and labor — has increasingly undermined the sustainability of local feminist organizing.
KW - Siheung Women’s Hotline;Local Feminism;Gender-based Violence;Christian Feminism;Human Rights;Hwang Sun-hee
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445
ER -
HeoHyunJoo. (2025). The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 82(2), 445-481.
HeoHyunJoo. 2025, "The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.82, no.2 pp.445-481. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445
HeoHyunJoo "The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82.2 pp.445-481 (2025) : 445.
HeoHyunJoo. The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s. 2025; 82(2), 445-481. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445
HeoHyunJoo. "The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82, no.2 (2025) : 445-481.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445
HeoHyunJoo. The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 82(2), 445-481. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445
HeoHyunJoo. The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2025; 82(2) 445-481. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445
HeoHyunJoo. The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s. 2025; 82(2), 445-481. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445
HeoHyunJoo. "The Siheung Women’s Hotline and Feminist Activism in the Local Community, 1990s–2000s" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82, no.2 (2025) : 445-481.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.2.202505.445
