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

List of contents

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

About the author

Flemming, Leslie A.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Flemming, Leslie A. Flemming, Flemming Leslie A.
• Assisted by: Leslie A. Flemming (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367213824
• ISBN: 978-0-367-21382-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Ethnic Studies, Asia, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to Asian American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General