Competing kingdoms
Subtitle: women, mission, nation, and the American Protestant empire, 1812-1960
By: edited by Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Connie Shemo
Series: American encounters/global interactions; American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780822346586; 9780822346500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. [391]-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women's mission in historical perspective : American identity and Christian internationalism / Jane H. Hunter; title: Woman, missions, and empire : new approaches to American cultural expansion / Ian Tyrrell; title: Canonizing Harriet Newell : women, the evangelical press, and the foreign mission movement in New England, 1800/1840 / Mary Kupiec Cayton; title: An unwomanly woman and her sons in Christ : faith, empire, and gender in colonial Rhodesia, 1899/1906 / Wendy Urban-Mead; title: "So thoroughly American": Gertrude Howe, Kang Cheng, and cultural imperialism in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 1872/1931 / Connie Shemo; title: From redeemers to partners : American women missionaries and the "woman question" in India 1919/1939 / Susan Haskell Khan; title: Settler colonists, "Christian citizenship," and the Women's Missionary Federation at the Bethany Indian Mission in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 1884/1934 / Betty Ann Bergland; title: New life, new faith, new nation, new women : competing models at the door of Hope Mission in Shanghai / Sue Gronewold; title: "No nation can rise higher than its women" : the women's ecumenical missionary movement and Tokyo Woman's Christian College / Rui Kohiyama; title: Nile mother: Lillian Trasher and the orphans of Egypt / Beth Baron; title: Embracing domesticity : women, mission, and nation building in Ottoman Europe, 1832/1872 / Barbara Reeves-Ellington; title: Imperial encounters at home : women, empire, and the home mission project in late nineteenth-century America / Derek Chang; title: African American women missionaries in the Congo, 1887/1899 : the confluence of race, culture, identity, and nationality / Sylvia M. Jacobs; title: "Stepmother America" : the Woman's Board of Missions in the Philippines, 1902/1930 / Laura R. Prieto; title: Conclusion : doing everything: religion, race, and empire in the US Protestant women's missionary enterprise, 1812/1960 / Mary A. Renda.