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Author:

Choi, Hyaeweol.

Title:

Gender and mission encounters in Korea : new women, old ways / Hyaeweol Choi.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xv, 280 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women--Korea--History.--History.
Women missionaries--Korea--History.
Women in missionary work--Korea--History.
Women--Korea--History.
Protestant churches--History--Korea--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-269) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

The Seoul-California series in Korean studies
Global, area, and international archive

ISBN:

0520098692 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520098695 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)264039835

LCCN:

2009023256

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)