Noriko Kawamura Ishii

American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909

New Dimensions in Gender

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines one aspect of American women's professionalization and the implications of the cross-cultural dialogue between American woman missionaries and Japanese students and supporters at Kobe College between 1873 and 1909. The study relies on analysis of hte missionaries' correspondence in American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) Papers and the life patterns of the Japanese alumnae found in archival records at Kobe College.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 164mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415947909
• ISBN-10: 0415947901
• Artikelnr.: 21740204

Autorenporträt

Noriko Kawamura Ishii is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Sophia University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. American Women at Home: The Woman's Board of Missions of
the Interior and American Women Missionaries to Japan 3. Missionary Work
Launched: Kobe Home, 1873-1877, the Founding Years 4. A Transition to
Education as a Profession: Kobe Home to Kobe Girls' School, 1877-1882 5.
Missionary Aspirations for Higher Education: Kobe Girls' School to Kobe
College, 1883-1909. Epilogue: The Dissolution of Women's Authority: Kobe
College, 1910-1927. Appendix.