Gendered missions : women and men in missionary discourse and practice / [print] edited by Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, (c)1999. - x, 252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: gendered missions at home and abroad Missionary-imperial feminism Piety and patriarchy: contested gender regimes in nineteenth-century evangelical missions Altruism and domesticity: images of missionizing women among the church missionary society in nineteenth-century East Africa Why can't a woman be more like a man? bureaucratic contradictions in the Dutch missionary society The dangers of immorality: dignity and disorder in gender relations in a northern New Guinea diocese Missionary maternalism: gendered images of the Holy Spirit sisters in colonial New Guinea Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- Susan Thorne -- Line Nyhagen Predelli and Jon Miller -- T. O. Beidelman -- Rita Smith Kipp -- Mary taylor Huber -- Nancy C. Lutkehaus.



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Women in missionary work--History.
Women missionaries--History.
Missions--History.

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