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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Hyaeweol.

Series:

Seoul-California series in Korean studies.

Global, area, and international archive.

The Seoul-California series in Korean studies

Global, area, and international archive

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Korea--History.

Women.

Women missionaries--Korea--History.

Women missionaries.

Women in missionary work--Korea--History.

Women in missionary work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book vividly 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. Hyaeweol Choi 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 growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

A Note on Romanization and Translation

1. Re-Orienting Gender

2. Gender Equality, a New Moral Order

3. The Lure and Danger of the Public Sphere

4. Disciplining the Modern Body and Mind

6. Doing It for Her Self: Sin yŏsŏng (New Women) in Korea

7. Conclusion New Women, Old Ways

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9780520098695

9780520943780

0520943783

OCLC:

1058038078