Gender and mission encounters in Korea
Subtitle: new women, old ways
By: Hyaeweol Choi.
Series: The Seoul-California series in Korean studies; Global, area, and international archive; Seoul-California series in Korean studies; Global, area, and international archive
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780520098695
Subjects: Women -- Korea -- History; Women missionaries -- Korea -- History; Women in missionary work -- Korea -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments; title: A note on romanization and translations; title: Re-orienting gender; title: Gender equality, a new moral order; title: The lure and danger of the public sphere; title: Disciplining the modern body and mind; title: Imagining the other: discursive portraits in missionary fiction; title: Doing it for her self: sin yŏsŏng (new women) in Korea; title: Conclusion: new women, old ways.