"A looking-glass for ladies" : American Protestant women and the Orient in the nineteenth century
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書誌事項
"A looking-glass for ladies" : American Protestant women and the Orient in the nineteenth century
Mercer University Press, c2005
1st ed
- タイトル別名
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A looking-glass for ladies
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index
収録内容
- Introduction: "a looking-glass for ladies"
- "The widow's mite" : organizing missionary societies
- "Sanctifying afflictions" : 19th century missionary women's memoirs
- "Her husband shall praise her" : marriage and missions
- "Her children shall call her blessed" : modeling motherhood
- "A cultivated and well-furnished mind" : education for "oriental" women
- "The healing of the nations" : women's medical mission in the "orient"
- "A modern uprising of women" : institutionalizing the women's missionary movement
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Lisa Joy Pruitt offers a new look at women's involvement in the mission movement, with a welcome focus on the often overlooked antebellum era. Most scholars have argued that the emergence of women as a dominant force in American Protestant missions in the late nineteenth-century was an outgrowth of nascent feminist activism in the various denominations. This new contribution suggests that the feminization of the later mission movement actually stemmed in large part from images of the "degraded Oriental woman" that popular evangelical literature had been circulating since the 1790s, and that the increasing focus on and involvement of women was supported by male denominational leaders as an important strategy for reaching the world with the Christian gospel. In the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth-centuries, popular evangelical literature began circulating descriptions of women of the "Orient" designed to illustrate the need of those women for the Christian gospel. Such powerful and widely disseminated images demonstrated to young American women their relatively privileged position in society and, throughout the nineteenth-century, led many to support the cause of missions with their money and sometimes their lives. A belief in the desperate need of "Oriental" women for salvation and social uplift was largely responsible for feminizing the American Protestant foreign mission movement. "A Looking-Glass for Ladies": American Protestant Women and the Orient in the Nineteenth Century traces the creation and dissemination of images of women who lived in that part of the world known to nineteenth-century Westerners as the "Orient." It examines the emotional power of those images tocreate sympathy in American women for their "sisters" in Asia. That sympathy catalyzed many evangelical women and men to argue for vocational roles for women, both married and single, in the mission movement. The book demonstrates the ways in which assumptions about the condition and needs of "Oriental" women shaped American evangelical women's self perceptions, as well as the evangelizing strategies of the missionaries and their sending agencies.
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