Women and Missions - Past and Present: Anthropological and Historical Perceptions (Cross-cultural Perspectives on Women)

by Fiona Bowie (Editor), ShirleyArdener (Editor), Deborah Kirkwood (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $142.30

  This collection of essays explore women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. They look at 19th-century missionaries, at the backgrounds and experience of women in the missions and at the attitudes of missionary societies towards their female workers.