Gendered missions
Subtitle: women and men in missionary discourse and practice
By: edited by Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus.
Contributors: Huber, Mary Taylor, 1944-; Lutkehaus, Nancy.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Women in missionary work -- History; Women missionaries -- History; Missions -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: gendered missions at home and abroad / Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus; title: Missionary-imperial feminism / Susan Thorne; title: Piety and patriarchy: contested gender regimes in nineteenth-century evangelical missions / Line Nyhagen Predelli and Jon Miller; title: Altruism and domesticity: images of missionizing women among the church missionary society in nineteenth-century East Africa / T. O. Beidelman; title: Why can't a woman be more like a man? bureaucratic contradictions in the Dutch missionary society / Rita Smith Kipp; title: The dangers of immorality: dignity and disorder in gender relations in a northern New Guinea diocese / Mary taylor Huber; title: Missionary maternalism: gendered images of the Holy Spirit sisters in colonial New Guinea / Nancy C. Lutkehaus.