Description |
1 online resource (xv, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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text file |
Series |
The Seoul-California series in Korean studies
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Global, area, and international archive
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Seoul-California series in Korean studies.
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Global, area, and international archive.
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Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women -- Korea -- History.
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Women. |
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Korea. |
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History. |
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Women missionaries -- Korea -- History.
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Women missionaries. |
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Women in missionary work -- Korea -- History.
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Women in missionary work. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Other Form: |
Print version: 9780520098695 |
ISBN |
9780520943780 (electronic book) |
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0520943783 (electronic book) |
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9780520098695 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0520098692 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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