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Missions --- History. --- Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel. --- Basel Ev. Mission --- Basel Evangelical Missionary Society --- Basel Evangelistic Missionary Society --- Basel Mission --- Basel Missionary Society --- Baseler Mission --- Basler Mission --- Evangelical Missionary Society --- Evangelical Missionary Society at Basel --- Evangelische Missions-Gesellschaft zu Basel --- Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft, Basel --- Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft zu Basel --- Mission de Bâle --- Protestant Mission Basel

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This is the first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the experiences of wives and daughters, female missionaries, educators and medical staff associated with the London Missionary Society, the China Inland Mission and the various Scottish Presbyterian Mission Societies, it compares and contrasts gender relations within different British Protestant missions in cross-cultural settings. Drawing on extensive published and archival materials, this study examines how gender, race, class, nationality and theology shaped the polity of Protestant missions and Christian interaction with native peoples. Rather than providing a romantic portrayal of fulfilled professional freedom, this work argues that women's labor in Christian missions, as in the secular British Empire and domestic society, remained under-valued both in terms of remuneration and administrative advancement, until well into the twentieth century. Rich in details and full of insights, this work not only presents the first comparative treatment of gender relations in British Christian missionary movements, but also contributes to an understanding of the importance of gender more broadly in the high imperial age.

RHONDA A. SEMPLE is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

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Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 1843-1885. Popular interpretations have tended to describe Christianity as either ‘empowering’ or ‘domesticating’ African women. Looking at variegated push-and-pull factors and in its focus on the agency of Ghanaian women this detailed analysis moves beyond. It situates the quest for Christian womanhood as part of trans-national discourses and exchanges, as well as local interactions, and writes a social history that is at once transnational and transcultural.

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