Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands

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

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Maina Chawla Singh ISBN: 9781135653453
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: October 31, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Maina Chawla Singh
ISBN: 9781135653453
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: October 31, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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