Gender and mission encounters in Korea 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780520943780
ISBN: 0520943783
ISBN: 9780520098695
ISBN: 0520098692
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xv, 280 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations.
Publisher: Berkeley [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press, ©2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:april.15 Multi-user.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.