Journal article
Women's Work for "Heathen Sisters": American Women Missionaries and Their Educational Work in Korea
Acta Koreana, Vol.2(1), pp.1-22
07/01/1999
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
Details
- 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
- Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; Religious Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984269216202771
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