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Author Choi, Hyaeweol.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
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Series The Seoul-California series in Korean studies
Global, area, and international archive
Seoul-California series in Korean studies.
Global, area, and international archive.
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.
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Subject Women -- Korea -- History.
Women.
Korea.
History.
Women missionaries -- Korea -- History.
Women missionaries.
Women in missionary work -- Korea -- History.
Women in missionary work.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: 9780520098695
ISBN 9780520943780 (electronic book)
0520943783 (electronic book)
9780520098695 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0520098692 (paperback : alkaline paper)