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...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Seoul-California series in Korean studies.
Global, area, and international archive. |
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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.
