Divine domesticities : Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific

Divine domesticities Christian paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific

"Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific fills a huge lacuna in the scholarly literature on missionaries in Asia/Pacific and is transnational history at its finest. Co-edited by two eminent scholars, this multidisciplinary volume, an outgrowth of several conferences/se...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Choi, Hyaeweol (auth), Choi, Hyaeweol, editor (editor), Jolly, Margaret, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, Australia : ANU Press 2014
2014.
Colección:Open Access e-Books
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Materias:
Indigenous women > Asia.
Indigenous women > Pacific Area.
Missions > Asia.
Missions > Pacific Area.
Indigenous women.
transnational history
imperialism
colonialism
asia pacific
gender history
Missionary
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009435014406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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