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

by Fiona Bowie (Editor), Deborah Kirkwood (Editor), Fiona Bowie (Editor), Deborah Kirkwood (Editor), Shirley Ardener (Editor)

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  1994

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  This collection of essays explore women missionaries and the effect of Christian missionary activity upon women. It looks 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.