Hyaeweol Choi is a scholar of gender history. She is the C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies at the University of Iowa.

'Choi's ground-breaking study explores the transnational dynamics shaping the lives of elite Korean women under colonial rule. She traces how their active encounter with 'protestant modernity' at home and abroad nurtured their own rise as leaders who helped frame notions of domesticity, nationalism, and gender in 1920s-30s Korea.' Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Introduction; 1. Ideology: 'Wise mother, good wife'; 2. Materiality: the experience of modern house and home; 3. Crossing: selfhood, nation, and the world; 4. Labor: searching for rural modernity; Conclusion.

Hyaeweol Choi is a scholar of gender history. She is the C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies at the University of Iowa.

'Choi's ground-breaking study explores the transnational dynamics shaping the lives of elite Korean women under colonial rule. She traces how their active encounter with 'protestant modernity' at home and abroad nurtured their own rise as leaders who helped frame notions of domesticity, nationalism, and gender in 1920s-30s Korea.' Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Introduction; 1. Ideology: 'Wise mother, good wife'; 2. Materiality: the experience of modern house and home; 3. Crossing: selfhood, nation, and the world; 4. Labor: searching for rural modernity; Conclusion.