Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific / / edited by Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly

• Pubblicazione: Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 519 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps
• Disciplina: 305.42
• Soggetto topico: Indigenous women - Asia; Indigenous women - Pacific Area; Missions - Asia; Missions - Pacific Area; Indigenous women
• Persona (resp. second.): ChoiHyaeweol; JollyMargaret
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Paradoxes of Domesticity: Missionary Encounters in the Making of Christian Homes in Asia and the Pacific -- 1. The Missionary Home as a Pulpit: Domestic Paradoxes in Early Twentieth-Century Korea -- 2. Missionaries and "A Better Baby Movement" in Colonial Korea -- 3. All Other Loves Excelling: Mary Kidder, Wakamatsu Shizuko and Modern Marriage in Meiji Japan -- 4. Raising the Standards of Family Life: Ginling Women's College and Christian Social Service in Republican China -- 5. Sacred Genealogies of Development: Christianity and the Indian Modern -- 6. "Ol Meri Bilong Wok" (Hard-working Women): Women, Work and Domesticity in Papua New Guinea -- 7. "Tired for nothing"? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands -- 8. Agency and Salvation in Christian Child Rescue in Colonial India: Preena and Amy Carmichael -- 9. Deviant Domesticities and Sexualised Childhoods: Prostitutes, Eunuchs and the Limits of the State Child "Rescue" Mission in Colonial India -- ; 10. A New Family: Domesticity and Sentiment among Chinese and Western Women at Shanghai's Door of Hope -- 11. From Open Fale to Mission Houses: Negotiating the Boundaries of "Domesticity" in Samoa -- 12. Paradoxical Intimacies: The Christian Creation of the Huli Domestic Sphere -- 13. Paradoxical Performances: Cruel Constraints and Christian Emancipation in 19-20th-Century Missionary Representations of Chinese Women and Girls -- 14. Bibles, Baseball and Butterfly Sleeves: Filipina Women and American Protestant Missions, 1900-1930 -- 15. The Materiality of Missionisation in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea -- 16. A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania
• Sommario/riassunto: "Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest. Co-edited by two eminent scholars, this multidisciplinary volume, an outgrowth of several conferences/seminars, critically examines various encounters between western missionaries and indigenous women in the Pacific/Asia … Taken as a whole, this is a thought-provoking and an indispensable reference, not only for students of colonialism/imperialism but also for those of us who have an interest in transnational and gender history in general. The chapters are very clearly written, engaging, and remarkably accessible; the stories are compelling and the research is thorough. The illustrations are equally riveting and the bibliography is extremely useful.—Theodore Jun Yoo, History Department, University of Hawai’i"--Publisher's website.
• Titolo autorizzato: Divine domesticities
• ISBN: 1-925021-95-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910132268303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II