The communion of women : missions and gender in colonial Africa and the British metropole /

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of British women left home to follow a call to the African mission field. Women's involvement in Protestant foreign missions during this time grew out of organized efforts to professionalize women's social services, to promote...

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1. Verfasser:
Prevost, Elizabeth E.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Zusammenfassung:
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of British women left home to follow a call to the African mission field. Women's involvement in Protestant foreign missions during this time grew out of organized efforts to professionalize women's social services, to promote white women's distinct ability to emancipate 'heathen' women, and to consolidate the religious framework of the British Empire. Motivated women could therefore pursue their vocation in a skilled,independent capacity, confident in the transformative power of the gospel and its institutional counterparts: the C
Umfang:
1 online resource (328 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612544330
1-282-54433-0
0-19-157334-5
Schlagworte:
Women missionaries > Great Britain > History.
Women missionaries > Africa > History.
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