Gender and mission encounters in Korea : new women, old ways /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Choi, Hyaeweol
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Series:Seoul-California series in Korean studies.
Global, area, and international archive.
Subjects:
Women > Korea > History.
Women missionaries > Korea > History.
Women in missionary work > Korea > History.
Femmes > Corée > Histoire.
Femmes missionnaires > Corée > Histoire.
Femmes dans l'œuvre missionnaire > Corée > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Women.
Women in missionary work.
Women missionaries.
Amerikanerin
Frau
Missionarin
Protestantin
Weiblichkeit
Frau.
Korea.
Korea
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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