Women’s Work for Women: Missionaries and Social Change in Asia 9780367213824, 0813377080

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Studying Women Missionaries in Asia
2 Opening Doors Through Social Service: Aspects of Women's Work in the Canadian Presbyterian Mission in Central India, 1877-1914
3 New Models, New Roles: U.S. Presbyterian Women Missionaries and Social Change in North India, 1870-1910
4 Danish Women Missionaries: Personal Accounts of Work with South Indian Women
5 Not a Foreigner, but a Sensei—a Teacher: Nannie B. Gaines of Hiroshima
6 Exporting Femininity, Not Feminism: Nineteenth-Century U.S. Missionary Women's Efforts to Emancipate Chinese Women
7 A Mission for Change in China: The Hackett Women's Medical Center of Canton, China, 1900-1930
8 The Home and the World: The Missionary Message of U.S. Domesticity
About the Contributors
Index

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Women’s Work for Women EDITED BY Leslie A. Flemming

Women’s Work for Women Missionaries and Social Change in Asia

EDITED BY Leslie A. Flemming

ISBN 978-0-367-21382-4

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Women's Work for Women

Women's Work for Women Missionaries and Social Change in Asia

EDITED BY

Leslie A. Flemming

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First published 1989 by Westview Press Published 2018 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 1989 by Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women's work for women: missionaries and social change in Asia/ edited by Leslie A. Flemming. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8133-7708-0 1. Women missionaries-Asia. Leslie A. BV2610.W63 1989 266'.0088042-