Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Siegel, Mona L

Titel

Transcending Cross-Cultural Frontiers: Gender, Religion, Race, and Nation in Asia and the Near East

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Women's History, 2015-04, Vol.27 (1), p.187-196

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Indigenous female converts fared even worse; despite their centrality to evangelicals' goals, indigenous Bible women were among the lowest paid of mission staff and were frequently the objects of ridicule among both missionary and indigenous communities. [...]very recently, historians have done relatively little to boost the reputation of female missionaries or to deepen our understanding of the roles they played in shaping the broad sweep of cultures with which they interacted. Lublin argues against prevailing ideas of Japanese women's political suppression in this period, emphasizing instead how members of the Japan WCTU injected a particularly Protestant and gendered moral reform agenda into ongoing debates about Japanese modernism and citizenship.\n The widely distributed mission press published numerous articles in the 1860s and 1870s that tied national strength to the elevation of women's status.