Gender, race and religion
Subtitle: Nordic missions 1860-1940
By: edited by Inger Marie Okkenhaug
Series: Studia missionalia Svecana -- 91; Studia missionalia Svecana -- 91.
Publisher: [Svenska Institutet för missionsforskning]
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Scandinavian Missions; History; Women missionaries; Missions; Women in missionary work
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : gender and Nordic missions / Inger Marie Okkenhaug; title: Protestantism and women's liberation in 19th century Sweden / Inger Hammar; title: Contesting the mission's patriarchal gender regime : single Norwegian missionary women in 19th century Madagascar / Line Nyhagen Predelli; title: "I didn't come here to play, that's for sure" : Finnish missionary women and authority in early 20th century Japan / Seija Jalagin; title: The missionary career of Baroness Hedvig Posse, 1887-1913 / Karin Sarja; title: Building an empire at home and abroad : front figures of the Danish missionary work for women, 1890-1913 / Hilda Römer Christensen; title: African women in the Norwegian mission in South Africa / Hanna Mellemsether; title: Building God's kingdom : the importance of the house to 19th century Norwegian missionaries in Madagascar / Karina Hestad Skeie.