Women's Work For Women : Missionaries And Social Change In Asia

This book grew out of a panel on women missionaries given at the 1986 meeting of the National Association for Women's Studies. When the leaders of the Woman's Foreign Mission Society of the American Presbyterian Church chose the title Woman's Work for Woman for their mission magazine in 1870, they chose the phrase that both overseas missionaries This Book Assesses The Effect Of North American & European Missionary Women In Their Roles As Directors And Staff Members Of Women's Educational & Medical Institutions, And As Organizers In Rural Areas Of India, Japan, & China. 1. Introduction : Studying Women Missionaries In Asia / Leslie A. Flemming -- 2. Opening Doors Through Social Service : Aspects Of Women's Work In The Canadian Presbyterian Mission In Central India, 1877-1914 / Ruth Compton Brouwer -- 3. New Models, New Roles : U.s. Presbyterian Women Missionaries And Social Change In North India, 1870-1910 / Leslie A. Flemming -- 4. Danish Women Missionaries : Personal Accounts Of Work With South Indian Women / Geoffrey Burkhart -- 5. Not A Foreigner, But A Sensei, A Teacher : Nannie B. Gaines Of Hiroshima / Dorothy Robins-mowry -- 6. Exporting Femininity, Not Feminism : Nineteenth-century U.s. Missionary Women's Efforts To Emancipate Chinese Women / Marjorie King -- 7. A Mission For Change In China : The Hackett Women's Medical Center Of Canton, China, 1900-1930 / Sara W. Tucker -- 8. The Home And The World : The Missionary Message Of U.s. Domesticity / Jane Hunter. Edited By Leslie A. Flemming. Includes Bibliographies And Index. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 1 Introduction: Studying Women Missionaries in Asia 10 2 Opening Doors Through Social Service: Aspects of Women's Work in the Canadian Presbyterian Mission in Central India, 1877-1914 20 3 New Models, New Roles: U.S. Presbyterian Women Missionaries and Social Change in North India, 1870-1910 44 4 Danish Women Missionaries: Personal Accounts of Work with South Indian Women 68 5 Not a Foreigner, but a Sensei—a Teacher: Nannie B. Gaines of Hiroshima 96 6 Exporting Femininity, Not Feminism: Nineteenth-Century U.S. Missionary Women's Efforts to Emancipate Chinese Women 126 7 A Mission for Change in China: The Hackett Women's Medical Center of Canton, China, 1900-1930 146 8 The Home and the World: The Missionary Message of U.S. Domesticity 168 About the Contributors 176 Index 178