Introduction
Chapter One: Korea’s Political and Social Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century
1.1 Korea in the Late 19th Century
1.2 Internal Causes
1.2.2 Rejected Western Learning and Silhak
1.3 External Causes
1.3.1 Western Imperialist Expansion
1.3.2 The Arrival of Missionaries
1.3.3 Japanese Imperialism and its Penetration of Korea
Chapter Two: Inequality Among Korea’s Social Classes and Gender
2.1 Late Joseon Class Inequality
2.2 Late Joseon Gender Inequality
2.2.1 Public Role of Women
2.2.2 Role of Women in the Family
2.2.3 Economic Inheritance
2.2.4 Education for Women
2.2.5 Joseon Neo-Confucian Impact on Gender Equality
Chapter Three: Peasant Uprisings and the Tonghak Revolutionary Movement
3.1 Movements and Dissatisfaction that Led to the Tonghak Revolution
3.2 The Silk Letter and the Prosecution of Catholic
3.3 Tax Scheming and Peasant Manipulation
3.4 Hong Kyong-Nae and Early Peasant Uprisings of the 19th Century
3.5 The Tonghak Movement Takes Root
Chapter Four:
The Idea of Human Equality And the Human Equality Movement in Tonghak
4.1What is Equality?
4.2 Confucianism and Equality
4.3 Economic Equality
4.4 Political Equality
4.5 Comparing the French Revolution to 19th Century Korea
Chapter Five: The Thought of Tonghak (Cheondogyo)
5.1 Tonghak, Cheondogyo, and Equality
5.2 Women’s Equality Through Cheondogyo
Conclusion
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