Gendered missions : women and men in missionary discourse and practice / edited by Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus.

Other author Huber, Mary Taylor, 1944-
Other author Lutkehaus, Nancy.
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999.
Descriptionx, 252 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women in missionary work--History.
Women missionaries--History.
Missions--History.

Contents Introduction: gendered missions at home and abroad / Mary Taylor Huber and Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- Missionary-imperial feminism / Susan Thorne -- Piety and patriarchy: contested gender regimes in nineteenth-century evangelical missions / Line Nyhagen Predelli and Jon Miller -- Altruism and domesticity: images of missionizing women among the church missionary society in nineteenth-century East Africa / T. O. Beidelman -- Why can't a woman be more like a man? bureaucratic contradictions in the Dutch missionary society / Rita Smith Kipp -- The dangers of immorality: dignity and disorder in gender relations in a northern New Guinea diocese / Mary taylor Huber -- Missionary maternalism: gendered images of the Holy Spirit sisters in colonial New Guinea / Nancy C. Lutkehaus.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98040265
ISBN0472109871 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BV2610 .G46 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold