Women and missions : past and present : anthropological and historical perceptions /
Women and missions : past and present : anthropological and historical perceptions / [print]
edited by Fiona Bowie, Deborah Kirkwood, and Shirley Ardener.
- Providence, Rhode Island : Berg, (c)1993.
- xx, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Introduction : reclaiming women's presence Protestant missionary women : wives and spinsters 'The missing link' : the recruitment of women missionaries in some English evangelical missionary societies in the nineteenth century Wanted : earnest, self-sacrificing women for service in South Africa : nineteenth-century recruitment of single women to Protestant missions 'God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife' : Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and other missionary women in the 1840s Were women a special case? / Adrian Hastings -- From heathen Kraal to Christian home : Anglican mission education and African Christian girls, 1850-1900 The elusive Christian family : missionary attempts to define women's roles : case studies from Cameroon Mission impact on women in colonial Kenya Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa : Christian missionary women and the Indian response Does Christianity empower women? : the case of the Anaguta of central Nigeria Catholic missionaries and Andean women : mismatching views on gender and creation These Catholic sisters are all mamas! : celibacy and the metaphor of maternity Fiona Bowie -- Deborah Kirkwood -- Peter Williams -- Cecille Swaisland -- Valentine Cunningham -- Modupe Labode -- Fiona Bowie -- Tabitha Kanogo -- Aparna Basu -- Elizabeth Isichei -- Sarah Lund Skar -- Joan F. Burke.
92015997
GB94-6629
Women in missionary work.
Missions--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
BV2610 BV2610.A676.W664 1993
Introduction : reclaiming women's presence Protestant missionary women : wives and spinsters 'The missing link' : the recruitment of women missionaries in some English evangelical missionary societies in the nineteenth century Wanted : earnest, self-sacrificing women for service in South Africa : nineteenth-century recruitment of single women to Protestant missions 'God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife' : Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and other missionary women in the 1840s Were women a special case? / Adrian Hastings -- From heathen Kraal to Christian home : Anglican mission education and African Christian girls, 1850-1900 The elusive Christian family : missionary attempts to define women's roles : case studies from Cameroon Mission impact on women in colonial Kenya Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa : Christian missionary women and the Indian response Does Christianity empower women? : the case of the Anaguta of central Nigeria Catholic missionaries and Andean women : mismatching views on gender and creation These Catholic sisters are all mamas! : celibacy and the metaphor of maternity Fiona Bowie -- Deborah Kirkwood -- Peter Williams -- Cecille Swaisland -- Valentine Cunningham -- Modupe Labode -- Fiona Bowie -- Tabitha Kanogo -- Aparna Basu -- Elizabeth Isichei -- Sarah Lund Skar -- Joan F. Burke.
92015997
GB94-6629
Women in missionary work.
Missions--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
BV2610 BV2610.A676.W664 1993