| Description |
x, 252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: gendered missions at home and abroad / Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- Missionary-imperial feminism / Susan Thorne -- Piety and patriarchy: contested gender regimes in nineteenth-century evangelical missions / Line Nyhagen Predelli and Jon Miller -- Altruism and domesticity: images of missionizing women among the church missionary society in nineteenth-century East Africa / T.O. Beidelman -- Why can't a woman be more like a man? bureaucratic contradictions in the Dutch missionary society / Rita Smith Kipp -- The dangers of immorality: dignity and disorder in gender relations in a northern New Guinea diocese / Mary taylor Huber -- Missionary maternalism: gendered images of the Holy Spirit sisters in colonial New Guinea / Nancy C. Lutkehaus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women in missionary work -- History
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Women missionaries -- History
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Missions -- History
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Huber, Mary Taylor, 1944-
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Lutkehaus, Nancy
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| LC no. |
98040265 |
| ISBN |
0472109871 |
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9780472109876 |
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