A research guide on American women and international missions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
A final project for HDS 2015: The Worlds of World Christianity, Fall 2022
Mandy Campbell, Harvard Divinity School
Curated primary and secondary sources in this guide are organized around several themes that dominate the literature of American women missionaries: feminism, gender, and family relationships; race and empire; and memory. Explore historical overviews, reference works, and journals on the Introduction page. Find monographs and peer-reviewed articles related to gender, as well as manuscript primary sources and novels on the Feminism, Gender, and the Family page. On the Race and Empire page, explore monographs and articles, as well as films and images related to the topic. Find secondary literature and a wealth of primary sources related to memory-keeping practices on the Memory page. Finally, many primary sources and archival collections are highlighted on the last page.
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