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Ruth Compton Brouwer - Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69 - 9780774809528 - V9780774809528
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Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69

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Description for Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69 Hardback. Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HRCX7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 454.

During the interwar era, the world of mainstream Protestant missions was in transition. The once-dominant paradigm of separate spheres – “women’s work for women” – had lost its saliency, and professional women often entered work worlds largely peopled by men. Medical missionaries Belle Choné Oliver and Florence Murray and literature specialist Margaret Wrong were three such women.

Using these women’s experiences in colonial India, Korea, and sub-Saharan Africa as case studies, Modern Women Modernizing Men explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men. The “modern” Christian ... Read more

This book – a bold exploration of changing gender, professional, and race relations in colonial missionary settings – will be of interest to scholars engaged in gender, women’s, and postcolonial studies, as well as to readers interested in the history of the international missionary movement.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774809528
SKU
V9780774809528
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ruth Compton Brouwer
Ruth Compton Brouwer is Chair of the Department of History, King's College, University of Western Ontario, and author of New Women for God: Canadian Presbyterian Women and India Missions, 1876-1914.

Reviews for Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69
A fascinating examination of missions and modernization in the late colonial period ... Brouwer upholds her usual high standard of scholarship, with meticulous research in archives, interviews, and varieties of missionary literature. I recommend this book to everyone with a serious interest in mission history.
Dana L. Robert
International Bulletin of Missionary Research Vol 27, No 4
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