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Missionaries Of Modernity : The Women's Protestant Missionary Movement And The Expansion Of Female Education Outside The West, 1950-2010

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Goff, Kerby
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[University Park, Pennsylvania] : Pennsylvania State University, 2019.
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1 electronic document
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Finke, Roger, 1954-
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Traditional explanations of the expansion of female mass education outside the West tend to privilege state and elite actors, ignoring local actors and female actors. While theories of educational expansion identify the impact of social movements in the U.S. and England, theoretical and empirical research has failed to test this outside the West. An overlooked movement concerned with expanding female education was the Womans Missionary Movement of the late 19th century. As part of the Protestant missionary movement, the largest movement of non-state modern actors in the world, it mobilized tens of thousands of female Protestant missionaries to extend female education in over 140 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America by the early 20th century. Drawing on the history of the movement, I demonstrate its similarity to 19th century expansion in the U.S. and England in terms of motivation, methods, and institutionalization mechanisms. In statistical analysis of mean female enrollments from 1950-2010 in 76 non-Western countries, I find that the number of female Protestant missionaries and the years of exposure to Protestant missions predict higher female primary enrollments, net of 24 alternative explanatory measures and pre-WWII enrollment levels. I find that the number of missionary secondary schools and the years of exposure to Protestant missions predicts higher female secondary enrollments, net of 21 alternative explanatory measures and pre-WWII enrollment levels.
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M.A. Pennsylvania State University 2019.
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