The communion of women : missions and gender in colonial Africa and the British metropole /

The communion of women : missions and gender in colonial Africa and the British metropole /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prevost, Elizabeth E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Women missionaries > Great Britain > History.
Women missionaries > Africa > History.
Missions, British > Africa > History.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Missionary feminism
  • Pt. I. 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
  • Pt. II. 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.