A New Kind of Missionary Work: Christians, Christian Americanists, and the Adoption of Korean GI Babies, 1955-1961

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Women’s Studies Quarterly

• Publication date

  2005-10-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, History

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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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