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Author Choi, Hyaeweol

Title Gender and mission encounters in Korea : new women, old ways / Hyaeweol Choi
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 280 p., [8] p. of plates )
Series The Seoul-California series in Korean studies
Global, area, and international archive
Seoul-California series in Korean studies.
Global, area, and international archive.
Contents Preface and acknowledgments -- A note on romanization and translations -- Re-orienting gender -- Gender equality, a new moral order -- The lure and danger of the public sphere -- Disciplining the modern body and mind -- Imagining the other: discursive portraits in missionary fiction -- Doing it for her self: sin yŏsŏng (new women) in Korea -- Conclusion: new women, old ways
Summary This book traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. The author shows that what it meant to be a 'modern' Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and a growing desire for selfhood
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women -- Korea -- History
Women missionaries -- Korea -- History
Women in missionary work -- Korea -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Women
Women in missionary work
Women missionaries
Amerikanerin
Frau
Missionarin
Protestantin
Weiblichkeit
Korea
Korea
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696316
ISBN 9780520943780
0520943783