Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands: American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s-1940s

ISBN-13: 9781138975019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 393 str.

Cha Singh Maina; Maina Chawla Singh

Opis

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Part I Chapter 1 The Missionary Scenario Chapter 2 Biblical Helpmeet and Evangelical Worker: The Missionary Wife Chapter 3 Darkness, Disease, The Zenana, and the Heathen Woman: Constructing Discourses and Saving Souls Chapter 4 Documenting Knowledge and Producing Texts: An Analysis of Missionary Literature Part II Chapter 5 Shifting Paradigms: Facing the Twentieth Century Chapter 6 Feminists, Philanthropists, Matriarchs, and Managers: The Single-Women Missionaries Chapter 7 Isabella Thoburn (1840-1901): The Lal Bagh School and the Isabella Thoburn College Chapter 8 Making Women Physicians and Christ-Filled Doctors: Ida Scudder (1870-1960) and the Christian Medical College, Vellore Chapter 9 Living Voices: Missionary Legacies and Indian Daughters

O autorze

Maina Chawla Singh