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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Providence, Rhode Island : Berg, (c)1993.Description: xx, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
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  • BV2610
  • BV2610.A676.W664 1993
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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