Competing kingdoms : women, mission, nation, and the American Protestant empire, 1812-1960 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reeves - Ellington, Barbara 1949- (Editor), Sklar, Kathryn Kish (Editor), Shemo, Connie Anne
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
Subjects:
Women in missionary work > United States > History > 19th century.
Women in missionary work > United States > History > 20th century.
Protestant churches > Missions > History > 19th century.
Protestant churches > Missions > History > 20th century.
Protestant churches > United States > History > 19th century.
Protestant churches > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 19th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
Online Access:http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36409
Table of Contents:
  • Women's mission in historical perspective : American identity and Christian internationalism / Jane H. Hunter
  • Woman, missions, and empire : new approaches to American cultural expansion / Ian Tyrrell
  • Canonizing Harriet Newell : women, the evangelical press, and the foreign mission movement in New England, 1800/1840 / Mary Kupiec Cayton
  • An unwomanly woman and her sons in Christ : faith, empire, and gender in colonial Rhodesia, 1899/1906 / Wendy Urban-Mead
  • "So thoroughly American": Gertrude Howe, Kang Cheng, and cultural imperialism in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 1872/1931 / Connie Shemo
  • From redeemers to partners : American women missionaries and the "woman question" in India 1919/1939 / Susan Haskell Khan
  • Settler colonists, "Christian citizenship," and the Women's Missionary Federation at the Bethany Indian Mission in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 1884/1934 / Betty Ann Bergland
  • New life, new faith, new nation, new women : competing models at the door of Hope Mission in Shanghai / Sue Gronewold
  • "No nation can rise higher than its women" : the women's ecumenical missionary movement and Tokyo Woman's Christian College / Rui Kohiyama
  • Nile mother: Lillian Trasher and the orphans of Egypt / Beth Baron
  • Embracing domesticity : women, mission, and nation building in Ottoman Europe, 1832/1872 / Barbara Reeves-Ellington
  • Imperial encounters at home : women, empire, and the home mission project in late nineteenth-century America / Derek Chang
  • African American women missionaries in the Congo, 1887/1899 : the confluence of race, culture, identity, and nationality / Sylvia M. Jacobs
  • "Stepmother America" : the Woman's Board of Missions in the Philippines, 1902/1930 / Laura R. Prieto
  • Conclusion : doing everything: religion, race, and empire in the US Protestant women's missionary enterprise, 1812/1960 / Mary A. Renda.

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