@article{ART003332835},
author={Jina Lee},
title={The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives},
journal={아시아여성연구},
issn={1225-9241},
year={2026},
volume={65},
number={1},
pages={365-395}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jina Lee
TI - The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives
JO - 아시아여성연구
PY - 2026
VL - 65
IS - 1
PB - Research Institute of Asian Women
SP - 365
EP - 395
SN - 1225-9241
AB - This article analyzes the “Korea, circa 1911~1950” documents from the YWCA of the U.S.A. Records, Record Group 11, held in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, examining how the language of Christian internationalism circulated by the international YWCA was received and reworked within the women’s movement in colonial and postcolonial Korea. The discourses of “leadership” and “service” adopted through the Korean YWCA were translated in the 1920s into emotional ethics of “religious service” and “self-discipline,” contributing to the formation of a non-political civic subjectivity among women. Under the pressures of forced integration into the Japanese YWCA during the 1930s and 1940s, however, these ethics were refracted into norms of “silence” and “obedience.” After liberation, these emotional ethics were restructured into ethics of “civic responsibility” and “professionalism,” becoming intertwined with discourses of national reconstruction. By analyzing emotional ethics as normative frameworks that organized women’s practices at the intersection of internationalism, imperialism, and nationalism, this article offers a new interpretive framework for the study of the Korean women’s movement grounded in overseas archival sources.
KW - YWCA;women’s organizations;emotional ethics;women’s subjectivity;internationalism
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Jina Lee. (2026). The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives. 아시아여성연구, 65(1), 365-395.
Jina Lee. 2026, "The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives", 아시아여성연구, vol.65, no.1 pp.365-395.
Jina Lee "The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives" 아시아여성연구 65.1 pp.365-395 (2026) : 365.
Jina Lee. The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives. 2026; 65(1), 365-395.
Jina Lee. "The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives" 아시아여성연구 65, no.1 (2026) : 365-395.
Jina Lee. The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives. 아시아여성연구, 65(1), 365-395.
Jina Lee. The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives. 아시아여성연구. 2026; 65(1) 365-395.
Jina Lee. The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives. 2026; 65(1), 365-395.
Jina Lee. "The Korean Reworking of Christian Internationalist Emotional Ethics: YWCA of Korea (1911~1950) in Smith College Archives" 아시아여성연구 65, no.1 (2026) : 365-395.
