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Informationen zum Autor Barbara Reeves-Ellington is Associate Professor of History at Siena College in Loudonville, New York.Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton.Connie A. Shemo is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. Klappentext Collection makes case for the significance of religion to U.S. imperial culture and for womens' agency in the U.S. Protestant missions movement from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Zusammenfassung A collection exploring how American women missionaries spread U.S. cultural imperialism along with Protestant Christianity from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth! and how their work was received. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Connie Schemo 1 I. Re-visioning American Women in the World Women's Mission in Historical Perspective: American Identity and Christian Internationalism / Jane H. Hunter 19 Woman, Missions, and Empire: New Approaches to American Cultural Expansion / Ian Tyrrell 43 II. Women Canonizing Harriet Newell: Women, the Evangelical Press, and the Foreign Mission Movement in New England, 1800–1840 / Mary Kupiec Cayton 69 An Unwomanly Woman and Her Sons in Christ: Faith, Empire, and Gender in Colonial Rhodesia, 1899–1906 / Wendy Urban-Mead 94 "So Thoroughly American": Gertrude Howe, Kang Cheng, and Cultural Imperialism in the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, 1872–1931 / Connie Shemo 117 From Redeemers to Partners: American Women Missionaries and the "Woman Question" in India 1919–1939 / Susan Haskell Khan 141 III. Mission Settler Colonists, "Christian Citizenship," and the Women's Missionary Federation at the Bethany Indian Mission in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 1884–1934 / Betty Ann Bergland 167 New Life, New Faith, New Nation, New Women: Competing Models at the Door of Hope Mission in Shanghai / Sue Gronewold 195 "No Nation Can Rise Higher than Its Women": The Women's Ecumenical Missionary Movement and Tokyo Women's Christian College / Rui Kohiyama 218 Nile Mother: Lillian Thrasher and the Orphans of Egypt / Beth Baron 240 IV. Nation Embracing Domesticity: Women, Mission, and Nation Building in Ottoman Europe, 1832–1872 / Barbara Reeves-Ellington 269 Imperial Encounters at Home: Women, Empire, and the Home Mission Project in Late Nineteenth-Century America / Derek Chang 293 Three African American Women Missionaries in the Congo, 1887–1899: The Confluence of Race, Culture, Identity, and Nationality / Sylvia M. Jacobs 318 "Stepmother America": The Woman's Board of Missions in the Philippines, 1902–1930 / Laura R. Prieto 342 Conclusion. Doing Everything: Religion, Race, and Empire in the U.S. Protestant Women's Missionary Enterprise, 1812–1960 / Mary A. Renda 367 Selected Bibliography 391 Contributors 397 Index 401...
