Maina Chawla Singh

Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands

American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s-1940s
Herausgeber: Singh, Maina Chawla

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 393
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781138975019
• ISBN-10: 113897501X
• Artikelnr.: 48456410

Autorenporträt

Maina Chawla Singh

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Chapter 1 The Missionary Scenario Chapter 2 Biblical Helpmeet and
Evangelical Worker: The Missionary Wife Chapter 3 Darkness, Disease, The
Zenana, and the Heathen Woman: Constructing Discourses and Saving Souls
Chapter 4 Documenting Knowledge and Producing Texts: An Analysis of
Missionary Literature Part II Chapter 5 Shifting Paradigms: Facing the
Twentieth Century Chapter 6 Feminists, Philanthropists, Matriarchs, and
Managers: The Single-Women Missionaries Chapter 7 Isabella Thoburn
(1840-1901): The Lal Bagh School and the Isabella Thoburn College Chapter 8
Making Women Physicians and Christ-Filled Doctors: Ida Scudder (1870-1960)
and the Christian Medical College, Vellore Chapter 9 Living Voices:
Missionary Legacies and Indian Daughters