Modern women modernizing men : the changing missions of three professional women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69 /

During the interwar era, the world of mainstream Protestant missions was in transition. The once-dominant paradigm of separate spheres -- "women's work for women"--Had lost its saliency, and professional women often entered work worlds largely peopled by men. Medical missionaries Bell...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brouwer, Ruth Compton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, 2002.
Temas:
Oliver, Belle Choné, > 1875-1947.
Murray, Florence J., > 1894-1975.
Wrong, Margaret, > 1887-1948.
Wrong, Margaret.
Murray, Florence J., > 1894-1975
Oliver, Belle Choné, > 1875-1947
Women missionaries > Canada > Biography.
Femmes missionnaires > Canada > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Women missionaries
Canada
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "A life lived and not a message delivered" : Challenge and change in interwar missions
  • 2. "Colleagues and eventually successors" : Dr. Choné Oliver and the struggle to establish a Christian medical college in late colonial India
  • 3. The triumph of "standards" over "sisterhood" : Florence Murray's approach tot he practice and teaching of western medicine in Korea, 1921-69
  • 4. Books for Africa : Margaret Wrong and the gendering of African literature, 1929-63
  • 5. Women in transitional era : Links and legacies.

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