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Entangled with empire: American women and the creation of the 'New Woman' in China, 1898--1937.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Entangled with empire: American women and the creation of the 'New Woman' in China, 1898--1937./
Author:	Sasaki-Gayle, Motoe.
Description:	301 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Dorothy Ross.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-12A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3339969
ISBN:	9780549939283

Entangled with empire: American women and the creation of the 'New Woman' in China, 1898--1937.
Sasaki-Gayle, Motoe.

Entangled with empire: American women and the creation of the 'New Woman' in China, 1898--1937. - 301 p.

Adviser: Dorothy Ross.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2009.

This dissertation examines how the (re)construction of America's national identity during a time of empire came to influence the subjectivity of American women working for America's civilizing mission overseas. From the beginning of the twentieth century, the new generation of college-educated American women moved beyond the domestic sphere and sought to become historical agents for modern progress by taking up missionary careers in education and sailing for the less advanced countries. Many of these women went to China---America's largest mission field in the early twentieth century---and established women's colleges, medical and nursing schools, and the YWCA for the purpose of creating "New Women" like themselves. In order to provide a raison d'etre for their projects, they forged identities as preachers of American civilization through dominant discourses in America relating to social evolution, American exceptionalism, science, liberal Christianity, and internationalism. By doing so, as this dissertation shows, their educational enterprises and their subjectivity were implicated in the project and ideology of American imperialism.

ISBN: 9780549939283Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Entangled with empire: American women and the creation of the 'New Woman' in China, 1898--1937.
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