(Ebook) Gender Religion and Heathen Lands American Missionary Women in South Asia 1860s 1940s 1st Edition by Maina Chawla Singh ISBN 0815328249 9780815328247

(Ebook) Gender Religion and Heathen Lands American Missionary Women in South Asia 1860s 1940s 1st Edition by Maina Chawla Singh ISBN 0815328249 9780815328247

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ISBN 10: 0815328249

ISBN 13: 9780815328247 

Author: Maina Chawla Singh

Seeking to extend existing scholarship on gender and colonialism and on women and American religion, this cross-cultural study examines the work of American missionary women in South Asia at several levels. A primary concern of the study is to historicize the interventions of these women and situate them within the dual contexts of the sending society and the receiving culture. It focuses on missionaries Isabella Thoburn and Ida Scudder, who founded some of the premier women's colleges and hospitals in British colonial India. The book also draws upon the narratives and reminiscences of South Asian women, now in their seventies, who attended such institutions in the 1940s, and whose voices texture our understanding of American women's missionary work in "Other" cultures.

Table of contents:

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

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