Evangelizing Korean women and gender in the early modern world : the power of body and text / Susan Broomhall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broomhall, Susan, author.

Contributor:

funder.

Series:

Gender and power in the premodern world.

Gender and power in the premodern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Missions--Korea--History--16th century.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Missions--Korea--History--17th century.

Women--Religious life--Korea--History--16th century.

Women.

Women--Religious life--Korea--History--17th century.

Evangelistic work--Catholic Church--History--16th century.

Evangelistic work.

Evangelistic work--Catholic Church--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 125 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Susan Broomhall leads the Gender and Women's History Research Centre at the Australian Catholic University. Her research explores women's experiences and gender ideologies in shaping the early modern world.

Summary:

This monograph examines how Korean women and men came to engage with Catholic missions during Europe's late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profoundly volatile period in East Asian history during which political, cultural, and social disruption created opportunities for new interactions in the region. It analyzes the nature of that engagement, as women and men became both subjects for, and agents of, catechizing practices. As their evangelization, experience of faith, proselytizing, and suffering were recorded in mission archives, the monograph explores contact between Catholic Christianity and Korean women in particular. Broomhall demonstrates how gender ideologies shaped interactions between missionary men and Korean women, and how women's experiences would come to be narrated, circulated, and memorialized.

Contents:

Front Cover

Front matter

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on The Text

List of maps

Timeline of Key Events

Body

Introduction

The Power of the Body and the Text

Structure

Chapter 1. Encounter

The Joseon Kingdom: "The Treasure Kept for the Man who Most Merits It"

Korean Women's Bodies and Kirishitan Masculine Performance

"Fruit Well Taken from This War": Evangelizing Koreans in Japan

Gender and Mission Strategy

Conclusions

Chapter 2. Community

Becoming Christian: Gender, the Body, and Affectivity

Articulating Christian Belonging

Contributing to the Christian Community

Belonging and the Christian Orders

Chapter 3. Suffering

Korean Women and Psychic Violence

The Threat of Sexual Violence

Physical Suffering as the Vulnerable Christ

Fatal Violence

Chapter 4. Mobility

Men, Mobility, and Missions to Joseon

Exile as Gendered Opportunity

Joseon via China: Knowledge Exchanges Between Learned Men

Back matter

Bibliography

Manuscript Primary Sources

Printed Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed February 10 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Broomhall, Susan Evangelizing Korean Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

ISBN:

1-64189-367-2

OCLC:

1396792713