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Author:
Prevost, Elizabeth E.
Title:
The communion of women : missions and gender in colonial Africa and the British metropole / Elizabeth E. Prevost.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
x, 312 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Women missionaries--Great Britain--History.
Women missionaries--Africa--History.
Missions, British--Africa--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-306) and index.
Contents:
Globalizing Christian 'sisterhood', 1900-1930. Encountering gender and Christianity in the African mission field. The pedagogy of protection : female education in Madagascar, 1867-1901. Beyond baptism : the politics of conversion in Uganda, 1895-1907. Christianizing womanhood in Madagascar, 1901-1923. Christianizing womanhood in Uganda, 1910-1930 -- Evangelizing and emancipating the metropole : Rethinking Christianity and colonialism in the wake of total war. Feminizing church and state : mission Christianity and gender politics, 1910-1928. Globalizing Christian 'sisterhood', 1900-1930.
ISBN:
0199570744
9780199570744
OCLC:
(OCoLC)500794354
LCCN:
2010277565
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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