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Author Choi, Hyaeweol, author.

Title Gender politics at home and abroad : Protestant modernity in colonial-era Korea / Hyaeweol Choi
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages) : illustrations
Contents Ideology: "Wise Mother, Good Wife" -- Materiality: The Experience of Modern House and Home -- Crossing: Crossing: Selfhood, Nation, and the World -- Labor: Searching for Rural Modernity -- Conclusion
Summary "In April 1932, the popular magazine Samch'ŏlli reported on a roundtable discussion featuring three prominent women intellectuals who had studied overseas: Ch'oe Yŏngsuk (B.A. from Stockholm University), Pak Indŏk (B.A. from Wesleyan College and M.A. from Columbia University), and Hwang Aesidŏk (M.A. from Columbia University).1 These women were asked to share their observations on a variety of topics, such as child care facilities, opportunities for employment, birth control, marriage and divorce. The panelists frequently offered illustrative examples from Sweden and the United States, since they had studied in those countries, but they also referred to Russia, India, Britain, and France, places where they had traveled briefly"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (CambridgeCore, viewed July 29, 2020)
Subject Women -- Korea -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Sex role -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
Feminism -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
Protestantism -- Korea -- Influence
Transnationalism.
Civilization -- Western influences
Feminism
Protestantism -- Influence
Sex role
Transnationalism
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Korea -- Civilization -- Western influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007846
Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073038
Subject Korea
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020014621
ISBN 9781108803489
1108803482
9781108766838
1108766838