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Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-korean-studies/article-pdf/28/1/195/1856375/195cho.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 May 2023 Choi, Gender Politics at Home and Abroad 195 positions between matrilineal and patrilineal relations, women’s uncontained de- sire and lust, and the conflicts between ritual kinship and blood kinship, as, for example, in the complex relationships between an adopted son as an heir apparent, his stepmother, and her own son. Chizhova argues that in lineage novels these “unruly feelings” are ultimately brought in harmony with the prescriptions of pat- rilineal kinship through moral efforts, which draw a trajectory of personal social- ization. The display of “unruly feelings,” in that sense, is ironically integral to the demonstration of the power of moral cultivation and of the unwavering perpetuity of patrilineal kinship. Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea inherits from and expands on Martina Deuchler’s monumental works on Korean kinship, The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology (1992) and Under the Ancestors’ Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea (2015). Chizhova adds the lit- erary and affective dimension to the social history of kinship and revises our understanding of how the social structure of kinship was imagined and performed in the textual dynamics of feelings http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Journal of Korean Studies , Volume 28 (1) – Mar 1, 2023

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Copyright © 2023 Journal of Korean Studies Inc.
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0731-1613
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2158-1665
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10.1215/07311613-10211205
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-korean-studies/article-pdf/28/1/195/1856375/195cho.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 May 2023 Choi, Gender Politics at Home and Abroad 195 positions between matrilineal and patrilineal relations, women’s uncontained de- sire and lust, and the conflicts between ritual kinship and blood kinship, as, for example, in the complex relationships between an adopted son as an heir apparent, his stepmother, and her own son. Chizhova argues that in lineage novels these “unruly feelings” are ultimately brought in harmony with the prescriptions of pat- rilineal kinship through moral efforts, which draw a trajectory of personal social- ization. The display of “unruly feelings,” in that sense, is ironically integral to the demonstration of the power of moral cultivation and of the unwavering perpetuity of patrilineal kinship. Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea inherits from and expands on Martina Deuchler’s monumental works on Korean kinship, The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology (1992) and Under the Ancestors’ Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea (2015). Chizhova adds the lit- erary and affective dimension to the social history of kinship and revises our understanding of how the social structure of kinship was imagined and performed in the textual dynamics of feelings

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Journal of Korean StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2023

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