Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands
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American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
American missionary impact in South Asia
American Missionary Women
Author_Maina Chawla Singh
British India social change
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CMC
colonial women missionaries
cross-cultural education
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feminist philanthropy
Foreign Missionary Society
Heathen Lands
Heathen Woman
Interdenominational Cooperation
isabella
Kinnaird College
Lal Bagh
Male Missionaries
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mission Bungalow
missionaries
missionary
missionary healthcare history
Missionary Literature
Missionary Texts
Missionary Wives
Missionary Women
Missionary Women's Colleges
Overseas Mission Work
qualitative historical analysis
single
Single Women Missionaries
societies
SOS Child's Village
south
South Asian Women
thoburn
wives
Woman's Medical College
Woman’s Medical College
women
women's
Women's Missionary Societies
Women's Missionary Work
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780815328247
- Weight: 910g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Seeking to extend existing scholarship on gender and colonialism and on women and American religion, this cross-cultural study examines the work of American missionary women in South Asia at several levels. A primary concern of the study is to historicize the interventions of these women and situate them within the dual contexts of the sending society and the receiving culture. It focuses on missionaries Isabella Thoburn and Ida Scudder, who founded some of the premier women's colleges and hospitals in British colonial India. The book also draws upon the narratives and reminiscences of South Asian women, now in their seventies, who attended such institutions in the 1940s, and whose voices texture our understanding of American women's missionary work in "Other" cultures.
