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245 00 $aWomen and missions :$bpast and present : anthropological and historical perceptions /$cedited by Fiona Bowie, Deborah Kirkwood, and Shirley Ardener.
260 $aProvidence, RI :$bBerg,$c1993.
300 $axx, 279 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCross-cultural perspectives on women
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 2 $aPreface / Deborah Kirkwood and Shirley Ardener -- 1. Introduction: Reclaiming Women's Presence / Fiona Bowie -- 2. Protestant Missionary Women: Wives and Spinsters / Deborah Kirkwood -- 3. 'The Missing Link': The Recruitment of Women Missionaries in some English Evangelical Missionary Societies in the Nineteenth Century / Peter Williams -- 4. Wanted - Earnest, Self-Sacrificing Women for Service in South Africa: Nineteenth-Century Recruitment of Single Women to Protestant Missions / Cecillie Swaisland -- 5. 'God and Nature Intended You for a Missionary's Wife': Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and Other Missionary Women in the 1840s / Valentine Cunningham -- 6. Were Women a Special Case? / Adrian Hastings -- 7. From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home: Anglican Mission Education and African Christian Girls, 1850-1900 / Modupe Labode -- 8. The Elusive Christian Family: Missionary Attempts to Define Women's Roles. Case Studies from Cameroon / Fiona Bowie -- 9. Mission Impact on Women in Colonial Kenya / Tabitha Kanogo.
505 0 $a10. Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa: Christian Missionary Women and the Indian Response / Aparna Basu -- 11. Does Christianity Empower Women? The Case of the Anaguta of Central Nigeria / Elizabeth Isichei -- 12. Catholic Missionaries and Andean Women: Mismatching Views on Gender and Creation / Sarah Lund Skar -- 13. These Catholic Sisters are all Mamas! Celibacy and the Metaphor of Maternity / Joan F. Burke -- Index / Fiona Bowie.
520 $aThis collection of essays by eminent anthropologists, missiologists and historians explores the hitherto neglected topic of women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. The book consists of two parts. The first part looks at nineteenth-century women missionaries as presented in literature, at the backgrounds and experience of women in the mission field and at the attitudes of missionary societies towards their female workers.
520 8 $aThe fascinating debates are very relevant to the ordination of women issue of today. Although they are traditionally presented as wives and support workers, it becomes apparent that, on the contrary, women missionaries often played a culturally important role.
520 8 $a. The second and longer section asks whether women missionaries are indeed a special case, and provides some fascinating studies from both historical and contemporary material of the impact of Christian missions on women.
520 8 $aOf particular value is the perspective of those who were themselves objects of missionary activity and who reflected upon this experience. Women actively absorbed and adapted the teachings of the Christian missionaries, and Western models are seen to be utilised and developed in sometimes unexpected ways.
650 0 $aWomen in missionary work.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147592
650 0 $aMissions$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010102133
700 1 $aBowie, Fiona.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88189151
700 1 $aKirkwood, Deborah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92043767
700 1 $aArdener, Shirley.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84017341
830 0 $aCross-cultural perspectives on women.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91057976
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