Missionary women : gender, professionalism, and the Victorian idea of Christian mission /

This is the first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the experiences of wives and daughters, female missionaries, educators and medical staff associated with t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Semple, Rhonda Anne, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2003.
Temas:
London Missionary Society > History.
China Inland Mission > History.
China Inland Mission.
London Missionary Society.
Women in missionary work > Great Britain > History.
Protestant churches > Missions > Great Britain > History.
Women in missionary work > Himalaya Mountains Region > History.
Missions, British > Himalaya Mountains Region > History.
Women in missionary work > China > History.
Missions, British > China > History.
Femmes dans l'œuvre missionnaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Églises protestantes > Missions > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Femmes dans l'œuvre missionnaire > Himālaya > Histoire.
Missions britanniques > Himālaya > Histoire.
Femmes dans l'œuvre missionnaire > Chine > Histoire.
Missions britanniques > Chine > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Missions, British.
Protestant churches > Missions.
Women in missionary work.
Vrouwen.
Zending.
Zendelingen.
China.
Great Britain.
Himalaya Mountains Region.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This is the first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the experiences of wives and daughters, female missionaries, educators and medical staff associated with the London Missionary Society, the China Inland Mission and the various Scottish Presbyterian Mission Societies, it compares and contrasts gender relations within different British Protestant missions in cross-cultural settings.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index.
ISBN:9781846151248
1846151244

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