Evangelizing Korean women and gender in the early modern world : : the power of body and text / / Susan Broomhall.

• Superior document: Gender and Power in the Premodern World Series
• VerfasserIn: Broomhall, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds, England : : Arc Humanities Press,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Gender and power in the premodern world.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (142 pages)

This monograph examines how Korean women and men came to engage with Catholic missions during Europe's late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profoundly volatile period in East Asian history during which political, cultural, and social disruption created opportunities for new interactions...

Table of Contents

• Front Cover
• Front matter
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on The Text
• List of maps
• Timeline of Key Events
• Body
• Introduction
• The Power of the Body and the Text
• Structure
• Chapter 1. Encounter
• The Joseon Kingdom: "The Treasure Kept for the Man who Most Merits It"
• Korean Women's Bodies and Kirishitan Masculine Performance
• "Fruit Well Taken from This War": Evangelizing Koreans in Japan
• Gender and Mission Strategy
• Conclusions
• Chapter 2. Community
• Becoming Christian: Gender, the Body, and Affectivity
• Articulating Christian Belonging
• Contributing to the Christian Community
• Belonging and the Christian Orders
• Conclusions
• Chapter 3. Suffering
• Korean Women and Psychic Violence
• The Threat of Sexual Violence
• Physical Suffering as the Vulnerable Christ
• Fatal Violence
• Conclusions
• Chapter 4. Mobility
• Men, Mobility, and Missions to Joseon
• Exile as Gendered Opportunity
• Joseon via China: Knowledge Exchanges Between Learned Men
• Conclusions
• Conclusions
• Back matter
• Bibliography
• Manuscript Primary Sources
• Printed Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• index.