ISBN:
9780520943780
,
0520943783
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 280 pages, [8] pages of plates)
,
illustrations.
Series Statement:
The Seoul-California series in Korean studies
Series Statement:
Global, area, and international archive
DDC:
305.43266023730519
Keywords:
Women History
;
Korea
;
Women missionaries History
;
Korea
;
Women in missionary work History
;
Korea
;
Korea
;
Women in missionary work History
;
Women History
;
Women missionaries History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Re-orienting genderGender 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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