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Title New women in colonial Korea : a sourcebook / compiled and translated with introduction by Hyaeweol Choi
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) : illustrations
Series Asian Studies Association of Australia women in Asia series
ASAA women in Asia series.
Contents Introduction: New women in discursive and historical space -- The woman question -- New woman, old woman -- Na Hyesŏk : the ideal woman -- Inaugural editorial from Sin Yŏja -- Kim Wŏnju : the self-awakening of women -- Kim Hwallan : urging men to critically reflect on themselves -- Ham Sepʼung : women's liberation means social progress -- Yi Chŏnghŭi : what does freedom mean for women? -- Im Chinsil : an observation on the status of women -- Kim Chunyŏn : nations of gender equality and gender inequality -- Yi Kwangsu : ten commandments for new women -- Ko Yŏngsuk : a rash statement : rebuttal to yi kwangsu -- Chu Yosop : characteristics of new women and traditional women -- Kim Wonju : the necessity of women's education -- Problems regarding uniforms and school badges for schoolgirls -- Ho Chongsuk : to girl students returning to their homes in the countryside -- Yi Kwangsu : centering women's education on motherhood -- Palbong Sanin : contemporary women and modern education : teach romance and sex education in order to guide women in the midst of moral decay -- Pang Chonghwan: even if I have a daughter, I won't send her to school : request for the reform of girls' school -- Alice Appenzeller : issues in the higher education for women in Korea -- Hyon Sangyun : a message to Korean schoolgirls -- Cho Tongsik : moral discipline and Korean schoolgirls -- Kim Hwallan : problems in girls' education -- The "modern girl" question -- Yu Kwangyol : what is modern? : the great debate on modern girl, modern boy -- Pak Yonghui : characteristics of "modern woman" and "modern man" in a bourgeois society : the great debate on modern girl, modern boy -- Songsoin : modern woman : the great debate on modern girl, modern boy -- Choe Haksong : a symbol of decadence : the great debate on modern girl, modern boy -- Love, marriage, and divorce -- No Chayong : the forerunner of the women's movement : Ellen Key -- Chu Yosop : suggestions for a happy marriage : starting with a more liberal wedding ceremony -- Kim Sukhui : I'd like to have a lover in addition to a husband -- Chong Chilsong : critique on red love : kollontai's sexual morality -- Chin Sangju : upsurge of proletarian love, the class nature of love -- Kim Kangchun : a thesis on the reform of romance -- Hwang Sindok : love in marriage, love suicide, and sex education -- Song Sangnae : legitimacy of divorce -- Special issue on second wife (che i puin) -- Pak Indok: Korea's nora left the doll's house -- Na hyesok : a confession about my divorce: to chonggu -- Politics of the body : chastity, birth control and fashion -- Kim Wonju : my view on chastity -- Roundtable : a debate on chastity -- Is it a sin to have sex during the engagement? -- Na Hyesŏk : starting a new life -- Paek Chol : a new view on chastity -- Yun Songsang : urgent call for birth control : the necessity of publicity and practice -- An urgent call for birth control : four medical methods -- Chu Sejuk : I advocate short hair -- Is short hair good or bad? -- Yun Songsang : modern woman reflected in vogue -- Transcultural experiences -- Yuam : higher education for women in the United States : advancement of women is equal to advancement of the nation -- Hŏ Chŏngsuk : the country of a doll that knows how to cry : observations of North America -- Kim Hwallan : my observation on foreign women -- Ch'oe Yŏngsuk : interviews with Gandhi and Naidu from my stay in India : my college life in Sweden -- Na Hyesŏk : missing the freedom of Paris : thoughts after a tour of Europe and the United States -- Pak Indŏk : my observations of a rural community in Germany -- Kim Maeri : dreams of hope -- Kim Wŏnju : women's demands and arguments -- Declaration of the establishment of Kunuhoe -- Chŏng Ch'ilsŏng : beginning with conscious awakening : life of the proletarian women -- Ch'oe Chŏnghŭi : the development of the women's movement in Korea -- Special issue : a New Year's resolution for new women -- Kim Ŭnhŭi : on the movement of proletarian women
Summary This book provides the first English translation of some of the central archival material concerning the development of New Woman (sin yosong) in Korea during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. It includes selected writings of both women and men who put forward their views on some of the key issues of new womanhood, including gender equality, chastity, divorce, education, fashion, hygiene, birth control, and the womenʹs movement. The authors whose essays are included express a range of attitudes about the new gender ethics and practices that were deeply influenced by the incessant flow of new and modern knowledge, habits and consumer products from metropolitan Japan and the West. Emphasizing the global nature of the phenomenon of the New Woman and Modern Girl, this sourcebook provides key references to a dynamic and multifarious history of modern Korean women, whose ideals and life experiences were formed at the intersection of Western modernity, Korean nationalism, Japanese colonialism and resilient patriarchy. -- Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Korea -- History -- 19th century
Women -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
Women's rights -- Korea -- History
Women -- Education -- Korea
Women -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Women -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Women
Women -- Education
Women -- Social life and customs
Women's rights
Korea
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Choi, Hyaeweol
LC no. 2012000719
ISBN 9780203116074
0203116070
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9781136297458
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