Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0774809051
ISBN 13
9780774809054
Category
300-309 Sociology
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
224
Subject
Anglican Church of Canada -- Missions. Women missionaries -- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions. Women in missionary work -- Canada, Northern.
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Abstract
Based on diaries, letters, and mission correspondence, this is the first comprehensive examination of women's roles in Anglican missions that were active in northern British Columbia, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940.
"This book is a critical addition to scholarship in women's, Canadian, Native, and religious studies, and contributes to the growing Canadian and international literature on post-colonialism and gender."--Jacket.
"This book is a critical addition to scholarship in women's, Canadian, Native, and religious studies, and contributes to the growing Canadian and international literature on post-colonialism and gender."--Jacket.
Biblio Notes
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-
Women and the white man's God.
Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, ©2002
(OCoLC)606857250
Online version:
Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-
Women and the white man's God.
Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, ©2002
(OCoLC)607648507
Named Person: Kaṇada
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Myra Rutherdale
ISBN: 0774809043 9780774809047 0774809051 9780774809054 9780774809016 0774809019
OCLC Number: 49648571
Awards: Winner of Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association 2003 (Canada)
Winner of Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2003 (Canada)
Winner of Massey Medal, Royal Canadian Geographical Society 2003 (Canada)
Short-listed for Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards 2002 (Canada)
Description: xxx, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents: Breaking down the barriers: gender and the Anglican church at home --
Perceptions and interpretations of the "Other" --
"I wish the men were half as good": gender relations in the mission field --
"Oh, to be in England": making a home away from home --
Motherhood and morality --
Contesting control while encouraging zeal.
Responsibility: Myra Rutherdale.
Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-
Women and the white man's God.
Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, ©2002
(OCoLC)606857250
Online version:
Rutherdale, Myra, 1961-
Women and the white man's God.
Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, ©2002
(OCoLC)607648507
Named Person: Kaṇada
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Myra Rutherdale
ISBN: 0774809043 9780774809047 0774809051 9780774809054 9780774809016 0774809019
OCLC Number: 49648571
Awards: Winner of Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association 2003 (Canada)
Winner of Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2003 (Canada)
Winner of Massey Medal, Royal Canadian Geographical Society 2003 (Canada)
Short-listed for Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards 2002 (Canada)
Description: xxx, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents: Breaking down the barriers: gender and the Anglican church at home --
Perceptions and interpretations of the "Other" --
"I wish the men were half as good": gender relations in the mission field --
"Oh, to be in England": making a home away from home --
Motherhood and morality --
Contesting control while encouraging zeal.
Responsibility: Myra Rutherdale.
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