ISBN:
9781925021950
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (532 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Indigenous women -- Asia
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Indigenous women -- Pacific Area
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Missions -- Asia
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Missions -- Pacific Area
;
Indigenous women
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Indigenous women ; Asia
;
Indigenous women ; Pacific Area
;
Indigenous women
;
Missions ; Asia
;
Missions ; Pacific Area
;
Electronic books
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Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Paradoxes of Domesticity: Missionary Encounters in the Making of Christian Homes in Asia and the Pacific -- 1. The Missionary Home as a Pulpit: Domestic Paradoxes in Early Twentieth-Century Korea -- 2. Missionaries and "A Better Baby Movement" in Colonial Korea -- 3. All Other Loves Excelling: Mary Kidder, Wakamatsu Shizuko and Modern Marriage in Meiji Japan -- 4. Raising the Standards of Family Life: Ginling Women's College and Christian Social Service in Republican China -- 5. Sacred Genealogies of Development: Christianity and the Indian Modern -- 6. ""Ol Meri Bilong Wok" (Hard-working Women): Women, Work and Domesticity in Papua New Guinea -- 7. "Tired for nothing"? Women, Chiefs, and the Domestication of Customary Authority in Solomon Islands -- 8. Agency and Salvation in Christian Child Rescue in Colonial India: Preena and Amy Carmichael -- 9. Deviant Domesticities and Sexualised Childhoods: Prostitutes, Eunuchs and the Limits of the State Child "Rescue" Mission in Colonial India -- 10. A New Family: Domesticity and Sentiment among Chinese and Western Women at Shanghai's Door of Hope -- 11. From Open Fale to Mission Houses: Negotiating the Boundaries of "Domesticity" in Samoa -- 12. Paradoxical Intimacies: The Christian Creation of the Huli Domestic Sphere -- 13. Paradoxical Performances: Cruel Constraints and Christian Emancipation in 19-20th-Century Missionary Representations of Chinese Women and Girls -- 14. Bibles, Baseball and Butterfly Sleeves: Filipina Women and American Protestant Missions, 1900-1930 -- 15. The Materiality of Missionisation in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea -- 16. A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania -- Contributors -- Bibliography.
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