LEADER 04031oam 2200517M 450 001 9910794443803321 005 20240112162317.0 010 $a1-00-313512-9 010 $a1-000-32501-6 010 $a1-003-13512-9 010 $a1-000-32322-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781003135128 035 $a(CKB)4100000011766202 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6478390 035 $a(OCoLC)1240716928 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1240716928 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003135128 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011766202 100 $a20210213e20211993 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aWomen and missions$epast and present : anthropological and historical perceptions /$fedited by Fiona Bowie, Deborah Kirkwood, Shirley Ardener 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (302 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-85496-738-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aF. Bowie, Introduction: Reclaiming Women's Presence -- Part I: Women Missionaries -- D. Kirkwood, Protestant Missionary Women: Wives and Spinsters -- P. Williams, The 'Missing Link': The Recruitment of Women Missionaries in Some English Evangelical Missionary Societies in the Nineteenth Century -- C. Swaisland, Wanted: Earnest, Self-Sacrificing Women for Service in South Africa: Nineteenth-Century Recruitment of Single Women to Protestant Missions -- V. Cunningham, 'God and Nature Intended You for a Missionary's Wife': Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and Other Missionary Women in the 1840s -- Part II: Mission Impact on Women -- A. Hastings, Were Women a Special Case? -- M. Lapodi, From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home: Anglican Mission Education and African Christian Girls, 1850-1900 -- F. Bowie, The Elusive Christian Family: Missionary Attempts to Define Women's Roles: Case Studies from Cameroon -- T. Kanogo, Mission Impact on Women in Colonial Kenya -- A. Basu, Mary Ann Cooke to Mother Teresa: Christian Missionary Women and Indian Response -- E. Isichei, Does Christianity Empower Women? The Case of the Anaguta of Central Nigeria -- S. Lund Skar, Catholic Missionaries and Andean Women: Mismatching Views on Gender and Creation -- J. Burke, These Catholic Sisters Are All Mamas! Celibacy and the Metaphor of Maternity 330 $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 19th 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. 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. The second and longest section asks whether women missionaries are indeed a special case, and provides some fascinating studies of the impact of Christian missions on women in both historical material and a wealth of contemporary material.Of 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 utilized and developed in sometimes unexpected ways. 345 $aLeyburn Fund 606 $aWomen in missionary work 606 $aMissions$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 615 0$aWomen in missionary work. 615 0$aMissions 676 $a269.2082 702 $aBowie$b Fiona 702 $aKirkwood$b Deborah 702 $aArdener$b Shirley 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794443803321 996 $aWomen and missions$93673448 997 $aUNINA