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Motoe Sasaki - Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century - 9780801451393 - V9780801451393
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Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century

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Description for Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century Hardback. Series: The United States in the World. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5, 4 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW; HRCX7; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 457.

In the early twentieth century, a good number of college-educated Protestant American women went abroad by taking up missionary careers in teaching, nursing, and medicine. Most often, their destination was China, which became a major mission field for the U.S. Protestant missionary movement as the United States emerged to become an imperial power. These missionary women formed a cohort of new women who sought to be liberated from traditional gender roles. As educators and benevolent emancipators, they attempted to transform Chinese women into self-sufficient middle-class professional women just like themselves. As Motoe Sasaki shows in Redemption and Revolution, these aspirations ... Read more

The subjectivity of the New Woman was an element of global modernity expressing gendered visions of progress. At the same time it was closely intertwined with the view of historical progress in the nation. Though American and Chinese New Women emphasized individual autonomy in that each sought to act as historical agents for modern progress, their notions of subjectivity were in different ways linked to the ideologies of historical progress of their nations. Sasaki’s transnational history of these New Women explores the intersections of gender, modernity, and national identity within the politics of world history, where the nation-state increased its presence as a universal unit in an ever-interconnecting global context.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
The United States in the World
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801451393
SKU
V9780801451393
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Motoe Sasaki
Motoe Sasaki is Associate Professor on the Faculty of Intercultural Communication at Hosei University.

Reviews for Redemption and Revolution: American and Chinese New Women in the Early Twentieth Century
In the 1920s, educated Chinese women increasingly felt called on to contribute to national salvation, even if it meant abandoning the ideals championed by their 'imperialist' American teachers. Sasaki focuses on women's higher education, particularly nursing. Her stimulating conclusion considers how the Cold War erased memories of earlier American and Chinese women's transculturation. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries. ... Read more

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