Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands

American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s-1940s

Maina Chawla Singh author Maina Chawla Singh editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:1st Dec '99

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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.

ISBN: 9780815328247

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Weight: 910g

408 pages