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  • 3 - Crossing: Selfhood, Nation, and the World

  • Hyaeweol Choi, University of Iowa
  • Book:
    Gender Politics at Home and Abroad
    Published online:
    20 July 2020
    Print publication:
    30 July 2020, pp 109-148

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the gender politics of overseas travel with particular focus on the crucial role of the global missionary network, which served as a channel that young women could use to experience the world beyond the metropole and the colony. Tracing the travels of these women through Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia, this chapter demonstrates how their international experiences vaulted them into a new sense of selfhood, racial and national identity, and cosmopolitanism, and created the context for the growth of a women’s movement. It argues that their direct exposure to Western and Japanese modernity sharpened their sense of locality, which in turn shaped their vision for social reform.