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Gender Politics at Home and Abroad - Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea (Paperback)
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Gender Politics at Home and Abroad - Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea (Paperback)
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Hyaeweol Choi examines the formation of modern gender relations in
Korea from a transnational perspective. Diverging from a
conventional understanding of 'secularization' as a defining
feature of modernity, Choi argues that Protestant Christianity,
introduced to Korea in the late nineteenth century, was crucial in
shaping modern gender ideology, reforming domestic practices and
claiming new space for women in the public sphere. In Korea,
Japanese colonial power - and with it, Japanese representations of
modernity - was confronted with the dominant cultural and material
power of Europe and the US, which was reflected in Korean
attitudes. One of the key agents in conveying ideas of "Western
modernity" in Korea was globally connected Christianity, especially
US-led Protestant missionary organizations. By placing gender and
religion at the center of the analysis, Choi shows that the
development of modern gender relations was rooted in the
transnational experience of Koreans and not in a simple nexus of
the colonizer and the colonized.
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