Women and missions : past and present : anthropological and historical perceptions / edited by Fiona Bowie, Deborah Kirkwood, and Shirley Ardener.

Other author Bowie, Fiona.
Other author Kirkwood, Deborah.
Other author Ardener, Shirley.
Format Book
Publication InfoProvidence, RI : Berg, 1993.
Descriptionxx, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCross-cultural perspectives on women
Cross-cultural perspectives on women. ^A468544
Contents Introduction : reclaiming women's presence / Fiona Bowie -- Protestant missionary women : wives and spinsters / Deborah Kirkwood -- 'The missing link' : the recruitment of women missionaries in some English evangelical missionary societies in the nineteenth century / Peter Williams -- Wanted : earnest, self-sacrificing women for service in South Africa : nineteenth-century recruitment of single women to Protestant missions / Cecille Swaisland -- 'God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife' : Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and other missionary women in the 1840s / Valentine Cunningham -- Were women a special case? / Adrian Hastings -- From heathen Kraal to Christian home : Anglican mission education and African Christian girls, 1850-1900 / Modupe Labode -- The elusive Christian family : missionary attempts to define women's roles : case studies from Cameroon / Fiona Bowie -- Mission impact on women in colonial Kenya / Tabitha Kanogo -- Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa : Christian missionary women and the Indian response / Aparna Basu -- Does Christianity empower women? : the case of the Anaguta of central Nigeria / Elizabeth Isichei -- Catholic missionaries and Andean women : mismatching views on gender and creation / Sarah Lund Skar -- These Catholic sisters are all mamas! : celibacy and the metaphor of maternity / Joan F. Burke.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 92015997
ISBN0854967389
ISBN0854968725 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BV2610 .W618 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold