Views at Variance: Korean Women Disrupting and Subverting the Narrative of Protestant Missionary Women Through Moments of Difference, 1884–1910

IF 0.3 0 ASIAN STUDIES Korean Studies Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI:10.1353/ks.2024.a931008
Kyrie Vermette
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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, missionary women from North America went to Korea expecting to become role models that Korean women would see, be impressed with, and want to follow. While the voices of missionary women can be easily heard through their own plentiful writing, the points of view of the Korean women with whom they interacted remain almost entirely unheard. This article extracts the views of Korean women from the writings of missionary women by examining moments of difference, showing that silence does not always mean agreement. The unease of missionary women in reaction to the stares of Korean women demonstrates the power of the return gaze, while moments of forgiveness allude to a previous breach between women. Finally, the existence of Christian Korean women who sought careers instead of motherhood shows that the goals of Korean women were not always the same as those of missionary women. This article argues that Korean women often understood their interactions differently than did missionary women and, although they cannot speak with their own voices, these moments of difference show the autonomy of Korean women buried within the missionary text and their ability to subvert missionary expectations.

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不同的观点:韩国妇女通过差异时刻扰乱和颠覆新教女传教士的叙述,1884-1910 年
摘要:19 世纪末 20 世纪初,来自北美的女传教士前往韩国,她们期望成为韩国妇女眼中的楷模,给她们留下深刻印象,并希望她们效仿。虽然我们可以从女传教士的大量文字中轻易听到她们的声音,但与她们交往的韩国妇女的观点却几乎完全没有被听到。本文通过研究差异时刻,从女传教士的著作中提取朝鲜妇女的观点,说明沉默并不总是意味着一致。传教士妇女对朝鲜妇女的凝视所产生的不安显示了回视的力量,而宽恕的时刻则暗示了妇女之间之前的裂痕。最后,寻求事业而非母亲身份的朝鲜女基督徒的存在表明,朝鲜妇女的目标并不总是与传教士妇女的目标相同。本文认为,韩国女性对她们之间互动的理解往往与传教士女性不同,尽管她们无法用自己的声音说话,但这些差异时刻显示了韩国女性埋藏在传教士文本中的自主性,以及她们颠覆传教士期望的能力。
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