1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790186403321

Autore

Choi Hyaeweol

Titolo

Gender and mission encounters in Korea [[electronic resource] ] : new women, old ways / / Hyaeweol Choi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009

ISBN

0-520-94378-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

The Seoul-California series in Korean studies

Global, area, and international archive

Disciplina

305.43/266023730519

Soggetti

Women - Korea - History

Women missionaries - Korea - History

Women in missionary work - Korea - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Note on Romanization and Translation -- 1. Re-Orienting Gender -- 2. Gender Equality, a New Moral Order -- 3. The Lure and Danger of the Public Sphere -- 4. Disciplining the Modern Body and Mind -- 6. Doing It for Her Self: Sin yŏsŏng (New Women) in Korea -- 7. Conclusion New Women, Old Ways -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi shows that what it meant to be a "modern" Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777562203321

Autore

Smith Robert C. <1964->

Titolo

Mexican New York [[electronic resource] ] : transnational lives of new immigrants / / Robert Courtney Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006

ISBN

0-520-93860-7

1-59875-804-7

1-282-76320-2

9786612763205

1-4237-3145-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Disciplina

304.8/7471072/090511

Soggetti

Mexican Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions

Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions

Transnationalism

United States Relations Mexico

Mexico Relations United States

New York (N.Y.) Emigration and immigration

Puebla (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration

New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Transnational Life in Ethnographic Perspective -- 2. Dual Contexts for Transnational Life -- 3. "Los Ausentes Siempre Presentes" -- 4. The Defeat of Don Victorio -- 5. Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life in the First Generation -- 6. "In Ticuani, He Goes Crazy" -- 7. "Padre Jesús, Protect Me" -- 8. "I'll Go Back Next Year" -- 9. Defending Your Name -- 10. Returning to a Changed Ticuani -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Coda: The Mexican Educational Foundation of New York -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Methodological Appendix -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York



offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study sheds new light on transnationalism, vividly illustrating how immigrants move back and forth between New York and their home village in Puebla with considerable ease, borrowing from and contributing to both communities as they forge new gender roles; new strategies of social mobility, race, and even adolescence; and new brands of politics and egalitarianism. Smith's deeply informed narrative describes how first-generation men who have lived in New York for decades become important political leaders in their home villages in Mexico. Smith explains how relations between immigrant men and women and their U.S.-born children are renegotiated in the context of migration to New York and temporary return visits to Mexico. He illustrates how U.S.-born youth keep their attachments to Mexico, and how changes in migration and assimilation have combined to transnationalize both U.S.-born adolescents and Mexican gangs between New York and Puebla. Mexican New York profoundly deepens our knowledge of immigration as a social process, convincingly showing how some immigrants live and function in two worlds at the same time and how transnationalization and assimilation are not opposing, but related, phenomena.