Women's Work for "Heathen Sisters": American Women Missionaries and Their Educational Work in Korea

Hyaeweol Choi

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Women's Work for "Heathen Sisters": American Women Missionaries and Their Educational Work in Korea

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Women's Work for "Heathen Sisters": American Women Missionaries and Their Educational Work in Korea

Hyaeweol Choi

Acta Koreana, Vol.2(1), pp.1-22

07/01/1999

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Abstract

The activities of Christian women missionaries in turn-of-the-century Korea are studied, focusing on their educational objectives. Christian women missionaries' strategy for educating Korean women changed over time. Whereas initial approaches emphasized the preservation of Korean women's domesticity-oriented identities, it is asserted that the women missionaries grew more critical of such traditional perspectives. Although the challenge to traditional Korean concepts of gender was expedited by the work of women missionaries, it is maintained that changes in Korean politics & culture also facilitated the overturn of the traditional Korean understanding of womanhood. It is concluded that the cross-cultural interaction between US & Korean women promoted the introduction of a more modern concept of womanhood in turn-of-the-century Korea. J. W. Parker

Christianity

Cultural Change

Females

Intercultural Communication

Missionaries

North American Cultural Groups

North Korea

Political Change

Sex Roles

South Korea

Turn of the Century

Womens Education

Womens Roles

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Title: Subtitle: Women's Work for "Heathen Sisters": American Women Missionaries and Their Educational Work in Korea
Creators: Hyaeweol Choi
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Acta Koreana, Vol.2(1), pp.1-22
ISSN: 1520-7412
eISSN: 2733-5348
Language: English
Date published: 07/01/1999
Academic Unit: Classics and Religious Studies; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
Record Identifier: 9984269216202771

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