Modern women modernizing men : the changing missions of three professional women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69 / Ruth Compton Brouwer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brouwer, Ruth Compton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada.

Oliver, Belle Choné, 1875-1947.

Oliver, Belle Choné.

Murray, Florence J., 1894-1975.

Murray, Florence J.

Wrong, Margaret, 1887-1948.

Wrong, Margaret.

Women missionaries--Canada--Biography.

Women missionaries.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome.

Other Title:

Changing missions of three professional women in Asia and Africa, 1902-1969

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, [2002]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

During the interwar era, the world of mainstream Protestant missions was in transition. The once-dominant paradigm of separate spheres -- "women's work for women"--Had lost its saliency, and professional women often entered work worlds largely peopled by men. Medical missionaries Belle Choné Oliver and Florence Murray and literature specialist Margaret Wrong were three such women. Using these women's experiences in colonial India, Korea, and sub-Saharan Africa as case studies, Modern Women Modernizing Men explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men. The "modern" Christian woman missionary, the author demonstrates, was in fact more an agent of modernization than an angel of domesticity. This book -- a bold exploration of changing gender, professional, and race relations in colonial missionary settings -- will be of interest to scholars engaged in gender, women's, and postcolonial studies, as well as to readers interested in the history of the international missionary movement.

Contents:

1. "A life lived and not a message delivered" : Challenge and change in interwar missions

2. "Colleagues and eventually successors" : Dr. Choné Oliver and the struggle to establish a Christian medical college in late colonial India

3. The triumph of "standards" over "sisterhood" : Florence Murray's approach tot he practice and teaching of western medicine in Korea, 1921-69

4. Books for Africa : Margaret Wrong and the gendering of African literature, 1929-63

5. Women in transitional era : Links and legacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed July 21, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Brouwer, Ruth Compton, 1941- Modern women modernizing men.

ISBN:

9780774850308

0774850302

9786613129758

6613129755

OCLC:

70717609

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