EAST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Women In Nazi Germany, Human Female Sexuality, Childbirth
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Choi : - trying to explain how american missionaries were given new (role) in evangelicalism. Choson society"s strict gender division brought more missionary women into korea, which the influenced korean women"s understanding of gender in the public sphere. Similarities between korean and victorian notions of womanhood : both recognize different roles for women and men at. Ethnographers were impelled by the goal of discursively constructing differences between korea(ns) and japan(ese), a task that ultimately justified japan"s imperial presence in protectorate korea and its future colonial projects (645) Guidebooks juxtaposed modern life of the colonial city highlighting difference aspects in colonial infrastructure development w/ precolonial past of korean stagnation (666-7) Three genres of colonial materials ethnographic, enumerative and invitational (advertisement) illustrate the interconnected logic of japanese discourse in the various constructions of early seoul. Like henry and choi, yoo seeks to explain how private matters become public through a public discourse about the body, specifically women"s bodies.