Book
Gender and mission encounters in Korea: New women, old ways
Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies, University of California Press
2009
DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520098695.001.0001
Abstract
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. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Gender and mission encounters in Korea: New women, old ways
- Creators
- Hyaeweol Choi - University of Iowa, Religious Studies
- Resource Type
- Book
- Series
- Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies
- DOI
- 10.1525/california/9780520098695.001.0001
- ISBN
- 9780520098695
- Publisher
- University of California Press; Berkeley
- Number of pages
- xv, 280 pages
- Copyright
- © 2009 by The Regents of the University of California
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Classics and Religious Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9983913299802771
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