A Sensitive Independence: Canadian Methodist Women Missionaries in Canada and the Orient, 1881-1925: Volume 9

ISBN-13: 9780773508965 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 312 str.

Rosemary R. Gagan

Opis

For nearly half a century, the Woman's Missionary Society (WMS) of the Methodist Church of Canada provided a rare opportunity for more than 300 single women to work in Japan, West China, and Canada. The all-female administrative structure of the WMS and the remoteness of the missionary stations provided relief from much of the gender-based tension and professional jealousy that inhibited women's entrance to and advancement in male-dominated professions in Canada. Within a profession where, in theory at least, neither their spinsterhood nor their sex was held against them, these women sought to secure a more equal place in the Methodist Church and society than was usually possible in Victorian Canada.