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Gender and mission encounters in Korea : new women, old ways /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2009.
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| Colección: | Seoul-California series in Korean studies.
Global, area, and international archive. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 280 p., [8] p. of plates ). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520943780 0520943783 |