Women's Work for Women: Missionaries and Social Change in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367216634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

Leslie A. Flemming

Opis

This book grew out of a panel on women missionaries given at the 1986 meeting of the National Association for Women's Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Studying Women Missionaries in Asia -- Opening Doors Through Social Service: Aspects of Women's Work in the Canadian Presbyterian Mission in Central India, 1877-1914 -- New Models, New Roles: U.S. Presbyterian Women Missionaries and Social Change in North India, 1870-1910 -- Danish Women Missionaries: Personal Accounts of Work with South Indian Women -- Not a Foreigner, but a Sensei—a Teacher: Nannie B. Gaines of Hiroshima -- Exporting Femininity, Not Feminism: Nineteenth-Century U.S. Missionary Women's Efforts to Emancipate Chinese Women -- A Mission for Change in China: The Hackett Women's Medical Center of Canton, China, 1900-1930 -- The Home and the World: The Missionary Message of U.S. Domesticity

O autorze

Flemming, Leslie A.