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Presents a case study of South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s, arguing that development of a combination of Western-inspired policies and Confucian parental governance has produced a system under which women are ruled and exploited by family, state, and the economy.

Authoritarianism in East Asia's capitalist developmental state, CDS, is highly gendered. A hybrid product of Western masculinist capitalism and Confucian parental governance, CDS authoritarianism takes on a hypermasculinized developmentalism that assumes all the rights and privileges of classical Confucian patriarchy for the state while assigning to society the characteristics of classical Confucian womanhood: diligence, discipline and deference. Women in the CDS now face three tiers of patriarchal authority and exploitation: family, state and economy. Suggests: emphasizing substantive, not just procedural, democratization; exercising a maternalized discourse of dissent; and applying hybrid strategies of social mobilization across states, societies, cultures and movements. Uses South Korea during the 1960s-1970s as a case study. (Original abstract - amended)

Critiques neo-liberalism and provides an alternative understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neo-liberal approach to international relations is deeply flawed, reproducing violence, instability, insecurity and marginalization.