Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia.
This edited volume explores the complex roles that Christian ideas and institutions played in the construction of modern womanhood in East Asia. While contributing to gender dynamics that disprivileged women in China, Japan, and Korea, Christianity was also instrumental in women’s efforts to empower...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Figures
- List of Contributors
- Editor’s Introduction
- Christianity, Modernity, and Women Physicians in China: the Southern Methodist Commitment to Medical Education for Chinese Women in Suzhou, 1891–1918 / Connie Shemo
- Chinese Christian New Women’s Practicality, Social Service, and Broad Cooperation: a Case Study of YWCA Women in the 1920s and 1930s / Aihua Zhang
- “Saving the Children”: Catholic Sisters and Social Reform in Republican China / Anthony E. Clark
- New Women before the “New Woman”: Sasaki Toyoju and Sasaki Nobuko in Meiji Japan / Rui Kohiyama
- The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Monogamy, and Defining “Modern” for Women and Japan / Elizabeth D. Lublin
- Christianity and “True Education”: Yasui Tetsu’s Contribution to Women’s Education in Imperial Japan / Garrett L. Washington
- Esther Park, Obedient Rebel: Subjectivity, Submissiveness, and Korean Christian Women in Korea’s Early Modern Period / Haeseong Park
- Revisiting the Mission Subject: the First Protestant Women and Photography in Korea between 1880 and 1910 / Heejeong Sohn
- Christian New Women of Modern Korea: Inheritors of the Bible Women’s Legacy / Lee-Ellen Strawn
- Back Matter
- Index.